# 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;