Docker-nginx: Using a volume for /usr/share/nginx/html makes nginx produce garbage

Created on 22 May 2015 · 6Comments · Source: nginxinc/docker-nginx

This is on OS X 10.9 with Boot2Docker 1.6.2 (using AUFS) and Docker 1.6.2. Running the Nginx container with a volume for static files produces garbage.

docker run -v "$(pwd)/html:/usr/share/nginx/html" -p 80:80 -d nginx

html/index.html was originally (when I started the container):

Then I changed it to:

I have a different length than you think!

This has 42 bytes, including the trailing newline. When I use any browser to access this container, I get the original file content (padded with zero bytes), but the Content-Length matches the new version: (I'm using dnsmasq to map all *.docker domains to the Boot2Docker IP.)

felix-mba:funk fr$ curl -v http://garbage.docker/
* Adding handle: conn: 0x7f9d4a803a00
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 0 (0x7f9d4a803a00) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* About to connect() to garbage.docker port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 192.168.59.103...
* Connected to garbage.docker (192.168.59.103) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.30.0
> Host: garbage.docker
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
* Server nginx/1.9.0 is not blacklisted
< Server: nginx/1.9.0
< Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 18:21:55 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 42
< Last-Modified: Fri, 22 May 2015 18:21:54 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< ETag: "555f73c2-2a"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< 
Hey
* Connection #0 to host garbage.docker left intact
felix-mba:funk fr$ curl -s http://garbage.docker/ | hexdump -C
00000000  48 65 79 0a 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |Hey.............|
00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00                    |..........|
0000002a
felix-mba:funk fr$

Any ideas?

Source

felixrabe

Most helpful comment

The workaround I use is to set sendfile off. (Another might be to use NFS, as described in https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/652#issuecomment-97609770, but I have not tested this myself.)

Dockerfile:

FROM nginx

COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

nginx.conf: (just commented out the sendfile on; line)

user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    #sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

Closing as this is clearly reported to be a VirtualBox bug.

felixrabe on 22 May 2015

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felix-mba:funk fr$ hexdump -C html/index.html 
00000000  49 20 68 61 76 65 20 61  20 64 69 66 66 65 72 65  |I have a differe|
00000010  6e 74 20 6c 65 6e 67 74  68 20 74 68 61 6e 20 79  |nt length than y|
00000020  6f 75 20 74 68 69 6e 6b  21 0a                    |ou think!.|
0000002a
felix-mba:funk fr$

felixrabe on 22 May 2015

See also https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/652. This seems to be a VirtualBox bug.

felixrabe on 22 May 2015

Yeah, the first thing to try would be to reproduce the effect on a real machine.

thresheek on 22 May 2015

Dockerfile:

FROM nginx

COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

nginx.conf: (just commented out the sendfile on; line)

user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    #sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

Closing as this is clearly reported to be a VirtualBox bug.

felixrabe on 22 May 2015

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First, thanks! But I have a question:
How to disable PHP caching when running PHP using Docker?
When I modify the Index.php I don't see my change.