nginx reverse proxy to https?

Question

This is my config:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name prettylogs.com;
        return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
        listen 443 ssl;

        server_name prettylogs.com;
        location / {
                proxy_pass  https://localhost:9200/;
        }
}

When I visit prettylogs.com, I do get redirected to https://prettylogs.com, however the request never reaches my node server from nginx. If I go to the port directly, the node server is running and displays.

Any ideas?

BTW, is there any reason to have SSL overhead in localhost connections? — Alexey Ten
– Alexey Ten, Commented Dec 23, 2014 at 6:10
Not that I can think of. My issue is that I'm using nginx to replace a simple node proxy, and my proxy before handed the ssl stuff off to my main express app. Since nginx is handling the ssl itself, I should probably switch my express app to not use ssl, yeah? — Joren
– Joren, Commented Dec 24, 2014 at 7:15
It depends. May be ssl overhead doesn't worth efforts to remove it. — Alexey Ten
– Alexey Ten, Commented Dec 24, 2014 at 7:31

Vimal · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-23 03:01:08Z

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There might be problem with your nginx conf file.

proxy_set_header   Host             $proxy_host;

it should have

proxy_set_header   Host             $host;

try with this updated configuration, your problem will be resolved.

answered Dec 23, 2014 at 3:01

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Joren Over a year ago

Tried that. No change. Here's my nginx.conf file: gist.github.com/Jorenm/7b918c303ff2f71952c2

Joren · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-23 03:24:30Z

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Turns out that both ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key were required to get this working for me. I didn't see this mentioned anywhere, so there might be some setting which negates this, but this fixed it.

answered Dec 23, 2014 at 3:24

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