Help running the docker container about configurable-http-proxy HOT 2 CLOSED

The --default-target http://localhost:8080 means that the proxy will forward requests to localhost:8080 inside the container, which I'm guessing isn't what you want. You will need to pass the host of the target as seen from the proxy's container, such as --default-target http://other-container:8080. I see you have discovered this by passing the machine's actual IP.

Assuming you are on linux and not macOS or Windows, you can use --net=host to put the proxy's networking into the host context, which should cause localhost to resolve how you expect both inside and outside the proxy.

The second piece is the API interface. This listens only on localhost by default (as above, this is resolved in the container, not on the host), which isn't what docker exposes when you pass a -p argument. To expose the API on the docker URL, you will need to add --api-ip=0.0.0.0 to your docker command. As you've discovered, listening only on localhost doesn't make a whole lot of sense when CHP is run in a container, so we should probably change make --api-ip=0.0.0.0 the default behavior of the container.

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@minrk Thanks for the details. I'll try to do some more experimenting later this week.

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