I was wondering if I could get some advice on my nginx configuration. The config seems to be working, but I'm unsure if I'm doing everything properly. The basic idea is to have a Jira and Confluence server (in separate Tomcat instances) running on the same machine, with nginx in front to handle SSL for both. I want only SSL connections to be made to Jira/Confluence. Jira is running on 127.0.0.1:9090 and Confluence on 127.0.0.1:8080. Here is my nginx.conf, any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.
user nginx;
worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $request '
'"$status" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
# Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
# Our self-signed cert
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/certs/fissl.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/fissl.key;
# redirect non-ssl Confluence to ssl
server {
listen 80;
server_name confluence.example.com;
rewrite ^(.*) https://confluence.example.com$1 permanent;
}
# redirect non-ssl Jira to ssl
server {
listen 80;
server_name jira.example.com;
rewrite ^(.*) https://jira.example.com$1 permanent;
}
#
# The Confluence server
#
server {
listen 443;
server_name confluence.example.com;
ssl on;
access_log /var/log/nginx/confluence.access.log main;
error_log /var/log/nginx/confluence.error.log;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /404.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
}
#
# The Jira server
#
server {
listen 443;
server_name jira.example.com;
ssl on;
access_log /var/log/nginx/jira.access.log main;
error_log /var/log/nginx/jira.error.log;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9090/;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /404.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
}
}
Looks fine, but, you'd probably get better performance if you served static files (images, css etc.) directly fron nginx rather than proxying it to tomcat.