NGINX Cookbook

How to do it...

Now that we have a certificate and private key, we can update our NGINX configuration to serve SSL-based sites. Here's our NGINX server directive block:

server { 
    listen              443 ssl; 
    server_name         ssl.nginxcookbook.com; 
    ssl_certificate     /etc/ssl/public.pem; 
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private.key; 
    ssl_protocols       TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; 
    ssl_ciphers         HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5; 
 
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/ssl-access.log  combined; 
 
    location  /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; } 
    root  /var/www; 
} 

If you have a basic index.html or similar in /var/www, you should see something like the following:

The error message will vary between browsers, ...