# NGiNX as SSL Wrapper

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-as-ssl-wrapper/168553>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [May 22, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-as-ssl-wrapper/168553 "2009-05-22T09:25:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![InterNetXSJSSS\_rg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/34f0e0/32.png) [@InterNetXSJSSS\_rg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/InterNetXSJSSS_rg)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-as-ssl-wrapper/168553/1 "2009-05-22T09:25:58Z")

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Hello

can Nginx be used as a SSL Wrapper in Front of some Apache Webservers?

Thanks

Juergen

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**Author:** ![InterNetXSJSSS\_rg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/34f0e0/32.png) [@InterNetXSJSSS\_rg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/InterNetXSJSSS_rg)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 9:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-as-ssl-wrapper/168553/2 "2009-05-22T09:27:43Z")

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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:15:03AM +0200, InterNetX - J??rgen  
Gotteswinter wrote:

> Hello
> 
> can Nginx be used as a SSL Wrapper in Front of some Apache Webservers?

Yes.

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**Author:** ![InterNetXSJSSS\_rg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/34f0e0/32.png) [@InterNetXSJSSS\_rg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/InterNetXSJSSS_rg)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 10:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-as-ssl-wrapper/168553/3 "2009-05-22T10:05:13Z")

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Hi Igor,

are there any configuration examples available?

thanks

Juergen

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**Author:** ![InterNetXSJSSS\_rg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/34f0e0/32.png) [@InterNetXSJSSS\_rg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/InterNetXSJSSS_rg)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-as-ssl-wrapper/168553/4 "2009-05-22T10:19:50Z")

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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:57:07AM +0200, InterNetX - J??rgen  
Gotteswinter wrote:

> Hi Igor,
> 
> are there any configuration examples available?

server {  
listen 443;

```
ssl on;
ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;
ssl_ciphers 

```

AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:RC4-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:RC4-MD5;  
ssl\_certificate /path/to/cert.pem;  
ssl\_certificate\_key /path/to/cert.key;  
ssl\_session\_cache shared:SSL:10m;  
ssl\_session\_timeout 10m;

```
location / {
     proxy_pass http://apache_server;
}

```

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