Why isn't nginx handling requests in this docker-compose/django setup? - django

Question

I'm trying to learn docker and docker-compose, and have run into a roadblock.
The stack is a python:2.7 base image serving up django pages, and this part works fine. I now want to put nginx in front of it as a reverse proxy. When I access localhost:8000 I get django pages as expected. When I load up localhost with no port, I get nothing ("Problem loading page"). I assume the connection between django container's port 8080 and nginx port 80 isn't happening, and I'm so new to docker that it's probably something simple that I'm not seeing.
docker-compose.yml
version: '2'
services:
web:
build: ./app/
command: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
volumes:
- ./app/:/code
ports:
- "8000:8000"
depends_on:
- db
nginx:
restart: always
build: ./nginx/
ports:
- "80:80"
volumes:
- /www/static
volumes_from:
- web
links:
- web:web
# probably not relevant to my issue
db:
image: postgres
redis:
restart: always
image: redis:latest
ports:
- "6380:6380"
volumes:
- ./redisdata/:/data
nginx config:
server {
listen 80;
server_name 127.0.0.1;
charset utf-8;
location /static {
alias /code/static;
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://web:8000;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
}
The nginx service starts successfully and appears to be running. I checked it's log using
docker-compose logs nginx
And it was empty.