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Hosting HTTPS sites with Nginx

Youtube Version !Indroduction What is SSL/HTTPS/TLS? * SSL - Secure Sockets Layer * It is the standard technology used to encrypt the communication between the client and the server. * This is done to avoid any man in the middle attacks. * HTTPS - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure * HTTPS appears in

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Nginx - SSL Passthrough Reverse Proxy

Nginx 1.9.3+ allows TCP load balancing or SSL passthrough. What this means is you can reverse proxy or load balance web applications without having to terminate SSL at the nginx. Example Configuration for name based access: stream { map $ssl_preread_server_name $name { www.somesite.com some-server; www.