I m using docker for windows but my docker container isn t starting on localhost 0 0 0 0 What is the solution to this

Question

When I run a container, this happens:

C:\>docker run --name docker-nginx -p 80:80 -d nginx
d3ccb73a91985651ec61231bca9f9c716f0dec807e354a29eeef2144f883a01c
C:\>docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                           NAMES
d3ccb73a9198        nginx               "nginx -g 'daemon off"   14 hours ago        Up 2 seconds        10.0.75.2:80->80/tcp, 443/tcp   docker-nginx

I cant seem to start it on localhost, can someone help me with this?

Answer 1

This happens because your docker containers are actually running on a virtual machine.

1^st step would be to check what the IP of your docker machine (virtual machine) is :

$docker-machine ls

NAME      ACTIVE   DRIVER       STATE     URL                         SWARM

default   *        virtualbox   Running   tcp://192.168.99.100  

Then run curl command which will show the default web site on your nginx web server inside the container

curl http://192.168.99.100:80