Nginx config files to serve RStudio Server behind a subdomain and proxy. Oh and TLS too. Ubuntu Xenial, LetsEncrypt

inductive-pw.conf

## Default server configuration
## /etc/nginx/sites-available/inductive-pw.conf
## simlink this to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled


server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    server_name inductive.pw www.inductive.pw;

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/inductive.pw/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/inductive.pw/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot

    if ($scheme != "https") {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot

    root /var/www/html;
    index index.html index.htm index.php index.nginx-debian.html;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
}

nginx.conf

## /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
	worker_connections 1024;
	# multi_accept on;
}

http {

	##
	# Basic Settings
	##

	sendfile on;
	tcp_nopush on;
	tcp_nodelay on;
	keepalive_timeout 55;
	types_hash_max_size 2048;

	server_tokens off;
	# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
	# server_name_in_redirect off;

	include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
	default_type application/octet-stream;

	##
	# SSL Settings
	##

	ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
	ssl_session_timeout 20m;
  ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

	map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
	  default upgrade;
	  ''      close;
	}

	##
	# Logging Settings
	##

	access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

	##
	# Gzip Settings
	##

	gzip off;
	gzip_disable "msie6";

	# gzip_vary on;
	# gzip_proxied any;
	# gzip_comp_level 6;
	# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
	# gzip_http_version 1.1;
	# gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

	##
	# Virtual Host Configs
	##

	include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

rs-inductive-pw.conf

##  Server config for subdomain serving RStudio Server
##  /etc/nginx/sites-available/rs-inductive-pw.conf
##  simlink this to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

server {
    listen 80;
    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    server_name rs.inductive.pw www.rs.inductive.pw;

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/inductive.pw/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/inductive.pw/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot

    # Redirect non-https traffic to https
    if ($scheme != "https") {
      return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot

    location / {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /$1 break;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8787;
        proxy_redirect http://127.0.0.1:8787/ $scheme://$host/;

        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
        proxy_read_timeout 20d;
    }

    location ^~ /.well-known/{
        allow all;
        root /var/www/html;
        log_not_found off;
    }
}