Update Nginx ProxyManager docker container guide

Commands

1. Backup your container
2. Check which version your Nginx ProxyManager is currently running by:
   docker exec -it nginx_app_1 /bin/bash


3. Check which docker containers are currently running
   docker ps
   
   
4. Stop the Nginx ProxyManager application and database containers by:
   docker stop nginx_app_1
docker stop nginx_db_1
   
   
5. Pull the latest (or a specific) version of the image by:
   docker pull jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest
   
   
6. Start the Containers
   docker-compose -f nginx.yml up -d
   
   
7. Check the logs of the containers
   docker logs --follow nginx_app_1


8. Check which version your Nginx ProxyManager is currently running by:
   docker exec -it nginx_app_1 /bin/bash


9. Check your monitoring solution & test your applications




Example

user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~# docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                      COMMAND             CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                                                                                  NAMES
1a74a14bc3ab   9c3f57826a5d               "/init"             18 days ago   Up 4 minutes   0.0.0.0:80-81->80-81/tcp, :::80-81->80-81/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp   nginx_app_1
02372069f98d   jc21/mariadb-aria:latest   "/scripts/run.sh"   18 days ago   Up 4 minutes   3306/tcp                                                                               nginx_db_1
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~# docker stop nginx_app_1
nginx_app_1
user@container-nginx:~# docker stop nginx_db_1
nginx_db_1
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~# docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND   CREATED   STATUS    PORTS     NAMES
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~# docker pull jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest
latest: Pulling from jc21/nginx-proxy-manager
7cf63256a31a: Pull complete
191fb0319d69: Pull complete
9ace5189354c: Pull complete
e4db5efc926a: Pull complete
[...]
be35f3c3bf02: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:e5eecad9bf040f1e7ddc9db6bbc812d690503aa119005e3aa0c24803746b49ea
Status: Downloaded newer image for jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest
docker.io/jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~# ls -lah
total 676K
[...]
-rw-r--r--  1 user    user    607K May 14 02:55 cron-auto-update.log
drwxr-xr-x  7 user    user    4.0K Nov  5  2023 data
drwxr-xr-x  8 user    user    4.0K May 14 19:07 letsencrypt
drwxr-xr-x  5 postfix crontab 4.0K May 14 19:14 mysql
-rw-r--r--  1 user    user    1.1K Aug 11  2024 nginx.yml
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~# docker-compose -f nginx.yml up -d
Starting nginx_db_1 ... done
Recreating nginx_app_1 ... done
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~#
user@container-nginx:~# docker exec -it nginx_app_1 /bin/bash
 _   _       _            ____                      __  __
| \ | | __ _(_)_ __ __  _|  _ \ _ __ _____  ___   _|  \/  | __ _ _ __   __ _  __ _  ___ _ __
|  \| |/ _` | | '_ \\ \/ / |_) | '__/ _ \ \/ / | | | |\/| |/ _` | '_ \ / _` |/ _` |/ _ \ '__|
| |\  | (_| | | | | |>  <|  __/| | | (_) >  <| |_| | |  | | (_| | | | | (_| | (_| |  __/ |
|_| \_|\__, |_|_| |_/_/\_\_|   |_|  \___/_/\_\\__, |_|  |_|\__,_|_| |_|\__,_|\__, |\___|_|
       |___/                                  |___/                          |___/
Version 2.12.3 (c5a319c) 2025-03-12 00:21:07 UTC, OpenResty 1.27.1.1, debian 12 (bookworm), Certbot certbot 3.2.0
Base: debian:bookworm-slim, linux/amd64
Certbot: nginxproxymanager/nginx-full:latest, linux/amd64
Node: nginxproxymanager/nginx-full:certbot, linux/amd64

[yp@docker-9a056abb3b01:/app]#

 

This also works fine if the docker container is within an LXC container. It should also work fine with podman instead of docker.