Proxy to upstream HTTPS server *with different* keys/certs in nginx

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:39:12PM -0500, tbamise wrote:

> Is it possible to use a different set of certs for the client side and
> another set for the upstream server side?
> 
> My use case is to have different sets of local ssl certs on Nginx. A
> key/cert pair for communicating with clients and another set for
> communicating with the upstream proxy.
> 
> Right now I can define a server module with ssl and specify the ssl
> certificates and specify a https protocol for proxy_pass for a location. But
> both client and upstream connections end up using the same certificates
> specified with $ssl_certificate. How can I specify different certificates
> for the client side connection and upstream side connection?

Connections to upstream servers don't use any client certificates.

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Maxim Dounin
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