Unable to access external SOLR port (8983)

[kent57]

I have SOLR running on my host 127.0.0.1:8983 using a custom index.
I am running the docker container:
docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
63178567f074 searxng/searxng:latest "/sbin/tini -- /usr/…" About an hour ago Up About an hour 0.0.0.0:38144->8080/tcp, :::38144->8080/tcp searxng
43ed6fa7e57f redis:alpine "docker-entrypoint.s…" About an hour ago Up About an hour 0.0.0.0:6379->6379/tcp, :::6379->6379/tcp redis

I have the modified settings.yml , docker-compose.yaml, and solr.py files.
Docker Files.zip

PROBLEM: Solr is up, running and resounds to queries. Docker container is up and running.
When I shell into the container and perform: wget "http://conservativesearch.info:8983" - the container is unable to connect to port 8983.
I have tried all of the Google documents I could find about connecting the contain to an eternal host, etc. but nothing worked for me. I am new to docker but I can manage to do the basics...
At this point, my conclusion is that the container cannot connect to port 8983. If I caould resolve that, solr can be exposed in the container and my solr.py search should work.
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[kent57]

BTW: When I use docker desktop, from the shell, I am able to reach http://conceravtivesearch.info:8888" no problem.
could this be a Linux issue? Could it by my Apache http config? I don't know...
excerpt from httpd.conf:
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conservativesearch.info

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<VirtualHost 23.111.155.149:80>
ServerName conservativesearch.info
ServerAlias www.conservativesearch.info

ServerAdmin [email protected]
UseCanonicalName Off

#ProxyPass "/solr/" "http://conservativesearch.info:8983"
#ProxyPassReverse "/solr/" "http://conservativesearch.info:8983"

ProxyPass "/" "http://conservativesearch.info:38144/"
ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://conservativesearch.info:38144/"

<VirtualHost 23.111.155.149:443>
ServerName conservativesearch.info
ServerAlias www.conservativesearch.info

ServerAdmin [email protected]
UseCanonicalName Off

ProxyPass "/" "http://conservativesearch.info:38144/"
ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://conservativesearch.info:38144/"

SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /var/cpanel/ssl/apache_tls/conservativesearch.info/combined

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[kent57]

Closing discussion. Opted to not use the docker image, therefore for me, this is no longer an issue.