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+# Copyright (C) 2013 W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
+#
+# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+#
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+# POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+FROM NAMESPACE/gentoo-syslog:TAG
+MAINTAINER A. U. Thor <author@example.com>
+#VOLUME ["PORTAGE:/usr/portage:ro", "PORTAGE/distfiles:/usr/portage/distfiles:rw"]
+RUN echo 'NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="access auth_basic autoindex charset fastcgi gzip gzip_static limit_req map proxy rewrite scgi ssi stub_status"' >> /etc/portage/make.conf
+RUN echo 'NGINX_MODULES_MAIL=""' >> /etc/portage/make.conf
+RUN emerge -v www-servers/nginx
+RUN eselect news read new
+RUN rc-update add nginx default
+
+RUN sed -i 's/listen 127.0.0.1;/listen 80 default_server;/' /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+RUN mkdir /var/www/localhost/htdocs
+
+# Container networking happens automatically
+RUN sed -i 's/need net$/use net/' /etc/init.d/*
+
+CMD rc default && tail -F /var/log/messages
+EXPOSE 80
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+Run this [Nginx][] image with:
+
+ $ docker run -d -name nginx-0 -v /var/www/nginx-0/htdocs:/var/www/localhost/htdocs -p 80:80 wking/nginx
+
+[volume-mounting][volume-mount] your content under the container's
+`/var/www/localhost/htdocs`. You can also mount volumes from other
+containers and serve their data, although you may neet to tweak the
+config to serve from an alternative location. Adjusting this image to
+serve from a configurable `$HTTP_ROOT` wouldn't be too difficult
+either.
+
+[Nginx]: http://nginx.org/
+[volume-mount]: http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/use/working_with_volumes/