Docker: allow configuration of HTTP listen port via env var (#28840)

* Docker: allow configuration of HTTP listen port via env var

* Update docs/install.md

Co-authored-by: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>

* prettier

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Co-authored-by: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>

Dockerfile

@@ -21,8 +21,12 @@ FROM nginx:alpine-slim
 
 COPY --from=builder /src/webapp /app
 
-# Override default nginx config
+# Override default nginx config. Templates in `/etc/nginx/templates` are passed
-COPY /nginx/conf.d/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
+# through `envsubst` by the nginx docker image entry point.
+COPY /docker/nginx-templates/* /etc/nginx/templates/
 
 RUN rm -rf /usr/share/nginx/html \
   && ln -s /app /usr/share/nginx/html
+
+# HTTP listen port
+ENV ELEMENT_WEB_PORT=80

docker/nginx-templates/default.conf.template

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 server {
-    listen       80;
+    listen       ${ELEMENT_WEB_PORT};
-    listen  [::]:80;
+    listen  [::]:${ELEMENT_WEB_PORT};
     server_name  localhost;
 
     root   /usr/share/nginx/html;

docs/install.md

@@ -60,6 +60,16 @@ would be:
 docker run --rm -p 127.0.0.1:80:80 -v /etc/element-web/config.json:/app/config.json vectorim/element-web
 ```
 
+The behaviour of the docker image can be customised via the following
+environment variables:
+
+- `ELEMENT_WEB_PORT`
+
+    The port to listen on (within the docker container) for HTTP
+    traffic. Defaults to `80`.
+
+### Building the docker image
+
 To build the image yourself:
 
 ```bash