First Question

Server NGINX
1

People,

I want to switch my Apache SSL to Nginx - that might help me resolve a
Ruby on
Rails issue and it is too much work to change all the non-SSL stuff
over as
well - I will do that later when I have time. So for the time being,
http will
be handled by Apache and https will be handled by Nginx.

I commented out the default server in:

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

and changed:

/etc/nginx/conf.d/ssl.conf

thus:

HTTPS server configuration

server {
listen 443;
server_name www.pricom.com.au;
access_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.error.log;

 ssl                  on;
 ssl_certificate      /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/RapidSSL.crt;
 ssl_certificate_key  /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/mars-server.key;

 ssl_session_timeout  5m;

 ssl_protocols  SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
 ssl_ciphers

ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

 location / {
     root   /var/www/ssl/wac;
 }

}

but in:

/var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.error.log

I get:

2011/11/01 13:50:28 [error] 9411#0: *7 open()
“/usr/share/nginx/html/wac”
failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 203.206.181.78, server:
www.pricom.com.au, request: “GET /wac HTTP/1.1”, host: “pricom.com.au”

Why is nginx reverting to the default path and how is it getting the
right
dir without the correct path?

Thanks,

Phil.

–
Philip R.

GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: [email protected]

2

A beginner’s guess…

Your server is listening on port 443 (HTTPS). Your log file shows that
the
file not found is being generated by the HTTP protocol for which your
configuration is not listening on. Are you should that you’re accessing
your site using “https://” and not “http://”?

…GET /wac HTTP/1.1", …

3

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Philip R. [email protected]
wrote:

ssl_session_timeout 5m;

ssl_protocols SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

location / {
root /var/www/ssl/wac;
}
}

Did you restart nginx after these changes?

but in:

/var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.error.log

I get:

2011/11/01 13:50:28 [error] 9411#0: *7 open() “/usr/share/nginx/html/wac”
failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 203.206.181.78, server:
www.pricom.com.au, request: “GET /wac HTTP/1.1”, host: “pricom.com.au”

You get 404, correct? Restart nginx and see if it still does this.

Why is nginx reverting to the default path and how is it getting the right
dir without the correct path?

Why not use nginx to proxy_pass ssl to http apache back end?