I can’t get my dotnet mvc app to be hosted correctly over ssl (https). It only works over http. The following is my relevant nginx files (with "example.org" used instead of my domain)
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
# Default server configuration
#
server {
server_name example.org *.example.org;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection keep-alive;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
}
# SSL configuration
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.org/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.org/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
# listen [::]:80 default_server deferred;
return 444;
}
server {
if ($host = example.org) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
server_name example.org *.example.org;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;
events {
worker_connections 768;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
##
# Basic Settings
##
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
##
# SSL Settings
##
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
##
# Logging Settings
##
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
##
# Gzip Settings
##
gzip on;
application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
##
# Virtual Host Configs
##
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
/etc/nginx/proxy.conf
proxy_redirect off;
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;
client_max_body_size 10m;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
proxy_connect_timeout 90;
proxy_send_timeout 90;
proxy_read_timeout 90;
proxy_buffers 32 4k;
This makes my site work over "http://example.org" but not over "https://example.org". I don’t know why it won’t work over https? I tried altering my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
file to make it like the recommended documentation for asp.net hosting via Microsoft. Here’s my new /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
file.
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;
events {
worker_connections 768;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=one:10m rate=5r/s;
server_tokens off;
sendfile on;
# Adjust keepalive_timeout to the lowest possible value that makes sense
# for your use case.
keepalive_timeout 29;
client_body_timeout 10; client_header_timeout 10; send_timeout 10;
upstream my-app{
server 127.0.0.1:5000;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
server_name example.org *.example.org;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.org/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.org/privkey.pem;
ssl_session_timeout 1d;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers off;
ssl_ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384;
ssl_session_cache shared:le_nginx_SSL:10m;
ssl_session_tickets off;
ssl_stapling off;
add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
#Redirects all traffic
location / {
proxy_pass http://my-app;
limit_req zone=one burst=10 nodelay;
}
}
}
When I change my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
file to the above, both "http://example.org" and "https://example.com" fail. So how do I get this app to work over https?
2
Answers
The problem was actually my
ufw
firewall. When I was setting up the droplet I did the commands:The problem above is that was supposed to do
sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full'
thensudo reboot
. After this, my original nginx configuration worked!Try the config below (don’t forget to disable https redirection in your app – remove
app.UseHttpsRedirection();
from your Program.cs (Startup.cs) and remove applicationUrl https reference fromlaunchSettings.json
"https://localhost:5001"):