How to install nginx 1.14.X inside docker?

Question

# 1. use ubuntu 16.04 as base image
FROM ubuntu:16.04

# defining user root
USER root

# OS update
RUN apt-get update

# Installing PHP and NginX
RUN apt-get install -y nginx=1.4.* php7.0

# Remove the default Nginx configuration file
RUN rm -v /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

# Copy a configuration file from the current directory
ADD nginx.conf /etc/nginx/

ADD web /usr/share/nginx/html/

# Append "daemon off;" to the beginning of the configuration
RUN echo "daemon off;" >> /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

# Expose ports
EXPOSE 90

# Set the default command to execute
# when creating a new container
CMD service nginx start

This is my Dockerfile. I want to Install 1.14.2 of Nginx but Error occurs:

E: Version '1.4.*' for 'nginx' was not found.

How can I install specific version of nginx inside docker this way?

Answer 1

As pointed out by @larsks Ubuntu 16.04 supports nginx only till version 1.10.3

Official wiki with more detail

So best/safe option would be either move your base OS to 18.04 or use nginx 1.10.3

Just for reference how you can install Nginx from src.

wget https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.14.0.tar.gz
tar zxf nginx-1.14.0.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.14.0
make
sudo make install
sudo nginx

More detail here