update to @konklone's latest nginx SSL configuration recommendations

conf/nginx-ssl.conf

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# https://gist.github.com/konklone/6532544
+##########################################
+
+# required: path to certificate and private key
+# the .crt may omit the root CA cert, if it's a standard CA that ships with clients.
+#ssl_certificate /path/to/unified.crt;
+#ssl_certificate_key /path/to/my-private-decrypted.key;
+
+# optional: tell browsers to require SSL (warning: difficult to change your mind)
+#add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000;
+
+# optional: prefer certain ciphersuites, to enforce Perfect Forward Secrecy and avoid known vulnerabilities.
+# done in consultation with:
+#   http://ggramaize.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/tls-perfect-forward-secrecy-support-with-apache/
+#   https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html
+ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
+ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:RC4-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:CAMELLIA256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA;
+
+# optional: turn on session resumption, using a 10 min cache shared across nginx processes
+# as recommended by http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html
+ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
+ssl_session_timeout 10m;
+keepalive_timeout   70;
+
+# nginx 1.5.9+ ONLY
+#ssl_buffer_size 1400; # 1400 bytes to fit in one MTU
+
+# SPDY header compression (0 for none, 1 for fast/less compression, 9 for slow/heavy compression)
+spdy_headers_comp 6;
+
+# OCSP stapling - means nginx will poll the CA for signed OCSP responses, 
+# and send them to clients so clients don't make their own OCSP calls.
+# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling
+# 
+# while the ssl_certificate above may omit the root cert if the CA is trusted,
+# ssl_trusted_certificate below must point to a chain of all certs
+# in the trust path - (your cert, intermediary certs, root cert)
+#
+# 8.8.8.8 below is Google's public DNS server. nginx will use it to talk to the CA.
+#
+# If the issuer certificate is not found (e.g. the certificate is self-signed),
+# nginx will skip this with the warning: '"ssl_stapling" ignored, issuer certificate not found'.
+ssl_stapling on;
+ssl_stapling_verify on;
+resolver 8.8.8.8;
+#ssl_trusted_certificate /path/to/all-certs-in-chain.crt;

conf/nginx.conf

@@ -29,15 +29,7 @@ server {
 
 	ssl_certificate $STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/ssl_certificate.pem;
 	ssl_certificate_key $STORAGE_ROOT/ssl/ssl_private_key.pem;
-
+	include /etc/nginx/nginx-ssl.conf;
-	# SSL configuration by @konklone at https://gist.github.com/konklone/6532544
-	# 1) prefer certain ciphersuites, to enforce Perfect Forward Secrecy and avoid known vulnerabilities. http://ggramaize.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/tls-perfect-forward-secrecy-support-with-apache/ and https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html
-	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
-	ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:RC4-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:CAMELLIA256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA;
-	# 2) turn on session resumption, using a 10 min cache shared across nginx processes, as recommended by http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html
-	ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
-	ssl_session_timeout 10m;
-	keepalive_timeout   70;	
 
 	# We'll expose the same static directory under https.
 	root $STORAGE_ROOT/www/static;

scripts/web.sh

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ cat conf/nginx.conf \
 	| sed "s/\$STORAGE_ROOT/$STORAGE_ROOT_ESC/g" \
 	| sed "s/\$PUBLIC_HOSTNAME/$PUBLIC_HOSTNAME_ESC/g" \
 	> /etc/nginx/conf.d/local.conf
+cp conf/nginx-ssl.conf /etc/nginx/nginx-ssl.conf
 
 # make a default homepage
 mkdir -p $STORAGE_ROOT/www/static