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Best nginx configuration for improved security (and performance).
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| http { | |
| # nginx won't resolve URLs correctly so we have to provide google's public DNS | |
| resolver 8.8.8.8; | |
| ####################### | |
| ### Server side SSL ### | |
| ####################### | |
| # based on: https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Strong_SSL_Security_On_nginx.html | |
| # Test using: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ | |
| # disable SSLv2 and SSLv3 | |
| ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; | |
| # use max compatibility and favour performance (excludes DH suites and RC4) | |
| ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!CAMELLIA:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!kEDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA'; | |
| # enables server-side protection from BEAST attacks | |
| ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; | |
| # enable session resumption to improve https performance | |
| ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m; | |
| ssl_session_timeout 10m; | |
| ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.crt; | |
| ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.key; | |
| } |
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