nginx Reverse Proxy - HTTP[S] support?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 01:11:22AM -0400, jlangevin wrote:

> I've successfully configured Nginx on an Ubuntu 10.04 box, serving up a
> dynamic PHP website.
> We need to be able to reverse proxy this website, which I've also been
> able to do, as:
> 
> www frontend (nginx reverse proxy)
> www1 backend (nginx php webserver)
> 
> The intention is to be able to add/remove backend servers at will.
> 
> 
> The only issue I have so far, is that the frontend, as configured, does
> not proxy SSL requests.
> How can I enable this on my configuration?

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html

> Please note, the backend server *does* have functioning SSL config, and
> was tested directly to verify both :80 and :443 work as intended.

You may proxy to SSL:

location / {
    proxy_pass   https://backend;
}

however, it's better to leave SSL only on nginx side and proxy SSL to
plain HTTP:

server {
    listen 443;
    ssl  on;
    # other ssl stuff

    location / {
        proxy_pass   http://backend;
    }


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