setup nginx tls reverse proxy on debian 8
It often makes sense to run a web-server behind a reverse proxy for various
reasons. It often also makes sense to terminate TLS on the reverse proxy. So
here's a minimal approach for doing this with nginx:
sudo apt-get install nginx-full
# generate strong diffie haleman paramters
# might take some time ...
sudo openssl dhparam -out /etc/ssl/dhparams.pem 4096
sudo chmod 600 /etc/ssl/dhparams.pem
cat << EOF | sudo bash -c 'cat >> /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf'
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com;
rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
server_name example.com;
# reverse proxy configuration
location / {
proxy_pass http://1.2.3.4;
}
# allow big uploads
client_max_body_size 1024M;
# ssl settings
ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/example.com_bundle.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/example.com.key;
ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/dhparams.pem;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA';
}
EOF
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