Replacing nginx With CommandBox In ColdFusion Dev Environment

This article details the author's migration from using an nginx container alongside a ColdFusion (CFML) Docker setup to relying solely on the CommandBox Docker image. The author initially used nginx for URL rewriting (to support search engine safe URLs) and SSL certificate generation, following a tutorial by George 'Gavin' Pickin. Over time, the Ortus Solutions team integrated these features into CommandBox, allowing the author to eliminate the nginx container. The article includes code snippets from the old docker-compose.yaml file and nginx rewrite rules, highlighting how requests to non-existent files were rewritten to /index.cfm. The author celebrates the simplification and removal of nginx from their local development environment.