How to run projects,

[triDcontrols]

This may be the easiest question, but I cannot figure this out. How do I run projects? Installation went great, I have it in a Docker w/ Nginx reverse proxy.

I mean I write a HTML and Js, import CSS from CDN etc and how do I get my project to run in a browser. I cannot find the docs.

Will the project path be the url path? When I try this, I get a 404.
https://code.mydomain.com/project/demo/demo.html

[Egoscio-zz]

You could mount a directory on your host filesystem to /home/coder/project as a volume, then have an Nginx static file server that serves that directory. Here's the nginx documentation for serving static files, and docker documentation for volumes.

[triDcontrols]

Bummer, I was hoping this was an all in one solution. Would've been nice to map a port # to a URL path of the project and watch it live in chrome. hmm. Guess I'll continue using my VScode desktop app on my laptop.

[ntindle]

I think this is very possible. I’m doing it right now with Apache. Just setup Nginx to point to that folder and to map ide.domain.com to coder.

In coder’s container, make sure you mount that directory and it should just work

[niv-d]

@triDcontrols
There's a couple ways to do what you want, are you talking just preveiwing the files as you work on it, or uploading to the actual site you're working on, or hosting your own website?

The first option, previewing: There's an extenstion called "Live HTML Previewer" that allows the previewing of html as you work on it, and it works with coder.

If the second options: Try the SFTP plugin, with some configuration (Really easy config) it will upload to your webserver via ftp or sftp, thus allowing you to simply refresh the page.

The last one: Coder is meant to vscode, not a webserver, just as your desktop doesn't allow a webserver to be run, nor does coder. Atleast not by default. Search for this plugin: "Preview on Web Server", it might be what you want.

[infogulch]

@dmratcliffe this seems related to another comment I made which basically states that if we had a known/fixed list of http paths that are used by coder, that would allow us to route an unused uri path to the application. So the coder ide is at ide.mydomain.com/ except requests to, say, ide.mydomain.com/web which are routed to port 8080 on the container which you can serve with your app.

[code-asher]

I'm closing this as it seems the question was answered but let me know if anything is still unclear.

[code-asher]

I do think it would be interesting to have a way built into code-server to proxy/tunnel to services and files running on the remote server/Docker. Tracking for that is here: #512.