# Proxy not listening to 443

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**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [March 19, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-not-listening-to-443/227557 "2013-03-19T13:46:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-not-listening-to-443/227557/1 "2013-03-19T13:46:08Z")

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Hello!

We are running some applications servers (grails) and using nginx as  
reverse  
proxy before that for caching and load balancing purposes.

everything is working as expected, but now that we received our ssl  
certificate, i am failing to route the ssl requests over nginx (i did  
understand that i could tell nginx the certificate and then serve the  
content of the http only servers in backend via ssl “frontend”).

here is my server block:

```auto
upstream foobar {
    ip_hash;
    server 127.0.0.1:9099;
}

server {
        server_name .foobar.lu
        listen 443 default_server ssl;
        listen 80;

        access_log /.zis/logs/access.log;

        ssl_certificate /.zis/cert/foobar_lu.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key /.zis/cert/foobar.key;

        ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;
        ssl_ciphers 
ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM;

        location ~* ^/(login|admin|account).*$ {

           if ($scheme = "http") {
              rewrite ^ https://www.foobar.lu$request_uri permanent;
           }

           proxy_pass http://foobar;
           proxy_set_header Host $host;
           proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
           proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For 
$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

           proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
           add_header Front-End-Https on;
           proxy_redirect off;
        }
[.. non-ssl caching stuff..]
}

```

accessing the page via httpsyields to ERR\_CONNECTION\_REFUSED and nestat  
offers me no-one listening on 443:

root@foo:/home/jeremy# netstat -nl | grep :4  
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:4242 0.0.0.0:\*  
LISTEN

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:4243 0.0.0.0:\*  
LISTEN

root@foo:/home/jeremy# netstat -nl | grep :80  
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:\*  
LISTEN

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:\*  
LISTEN

Is there something special about ssl i did not configure right maybe? I  
tried splitting 80 and 443 in separate server blocks but no luck so far.

Any help would be highly appreciated, thanks in advance, Andreas

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[proxy not listening to 443](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,237547,237547#msg-237547)**
>
> Hello! We are running some applications servers (grails) and using nginx as reverse proxy before that for caching and load balancing purposes. everything is working as expected, but now that we received our ssl certificate, i am failing to route the...

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-not-listening-to-443/227557/2 "2013-03-19T16:53:45Z")

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Ok,

Its getting better 🙂

Could get it to listen to 443 by using

listen \*:443 default\_server ssl;  
listen \*:80;

(star double dot port)

however server still says

ERR\_CONNECTION\_REFUSED

and in access log, nothing appears for https … any help would be highly  
appreciated …

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Re: proxy not listening to 443](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,237547,237566#msg-237566)**
>
> Hello! We are running some applications servers (grails) and using nginx as reverse proxy before that for caching and load balancing purposes. everything is working as expected, but now that we received our ssl certificate, i am failing to route the...