Put nginx 1.18 in CentOS6 and set reverse proxy

Premise

• You have already created a self-signed certificate.
• You already have an http server.
• There is no https server now

Download

• http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/x86_64/RPMS/

Installation

#Pre-installation test
rpm -ivh --test "nginx-1.18.0-2.el6.ngx.x86_64.rpm"

#Installation
rpm -ivh "nginx-1.18.0-2.el6.ngx.x86_64.rpm"

#View list of installed files
rpm -qal nginx

Configuration

• /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

server {
    listen       443 ssl;
    server_name  server.local;

    # hide nginx version.
    server_tokens off;

    # ssl_verify_client      on;
    ssl_verify_client      off;
    ssl_certificate        /etc/nginx/wildcard_local/wildcard_local.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key    /etc/nginx/wildcard_local/private/wildcard_local.key;
    ssl_client_certificate /etc/nginx/wildcard_local/ca.crt;
    ssl_ciphers            'HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5';
    ssl_protocols          TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;

    proxy_set_header    Host		server.local;
    proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP	$remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Host	$host;
    proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Server	$host;
    proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For	$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

    location / {
        proxy_pass      http://server.local;
    }

}

#Start-up
service nginx start

Operation check

When you access https://server.local Confirm that the contents of http://server.local are displayed.