I'm trying to stand up a temporary NiFi server to support a proof of concept demo for a customer. For these types of short lived servers I like to use Docker when possible. I'm able to get the NiFi container up and running with out any issues but I can't figure out how to access its UI from the browser on a remote host. I've tried the following docker run variations:
docker run --name nifi \
-p 8080:8080 \
-d \
apache/nifi:latest
docker run --name nifi \
-p 8080:8080 \
-e NIFI_WEB_HTTP_PORT='8080' \
-d \
apache/nifi:latest
docker run --name nifi \
-p 8080:8080 \
-e NIFI_WEB_HTTP_HOST=${hostname-here} \
-e NIFI_WEB_HTTP_PORT='8080' \
-d \
apache/nifi:latest
My NiFi version is 1.8.0. I'm fairly certain that my problems are related to the host-headers blocker feature added to version 1.5.0. I've seen a few questions similar to mine but no solutions. Is it possible to access the NiFi UI from a remote host after version 1.5.0? Can host-headers blocker be disabled for a non-prod demo? Would a non-Docker install on my server present the same host-headers blocker issues? Should a use 1.4 for my demo and save myself a headache
