Compose: Copying application files/folders into container from host filesystem

[BentCoder]

Hi,

First of all this is more of an advice/help request than an issue. I am facing this issue hence reason I am here.

ubuntu@linux:~/hello-world$ tree -a
.
├── config
│   └── params.yml
├── docker
│   ├── docker-compose.yml
│   ├── .env
│   └── nginx
│       └── Dockerfile
├── .gitignore
├── index.html
├── Readme.md
└── src
    └── controller
        ├── default.php
        └── user.php

5 directories, 9 files

When I create my container(s), I want everything you see above copied into nginx_con container. Obviously Dockerfile below or similar ones won't work. How can I achieve this? What is the best practise?

nginx/Dockerfile

FROM nginx:1.13.8

...
COPY ./../ /usr/share/nginx/html
...

docker-compose.yml

version: '3'

services:
    nginx_img:
        container_name: nginx_con
        build: ./nginx
        ports:
            - 1000:80

Thanks

[BentCoder]

If the structure above is too complex, I am happy to use structure below so content of src folder should be copied into /usr/share/nginx/html when I run docker-compose up.

ubuntu@linux:~/hello-world$ tree -a
.
├── docker-compose.yml
├── nginx
│   └── Dockerfile
└── src
    ├── Readme.md
    └── config
    ├── index.php
    └── ......
2 directories, 4 files

[shin-]

Try

build:
  context: ..
  dockerfile: ./nginx/Dockerfile

[BentCoder]

Thank you. Work perfectly fine.

[shirgaveranjeet]

I am facing same issue , can you please help

wget someurl | tar zxf - -C ${SP_HOME} && \
rm -rf ${SP_HOME}/config && \
chmod 555 /wrapper.sh
COPY ../newconfig ${SP_HOME}/config

Forbidden path outside the build context: ../newconfig ()
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure