NGINX configuration for a Meteor application. See: https://blog.gitrandom.com

meteor-nginx.conf

server_tokens off;

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

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    server_name example.com;
    return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl spdy;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/example;

    include cloudflare;

    ssl_certificate /etc/pki/tls/certs/example.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/pki/tls/private/example.key; 

    add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains";
    ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA:AES128-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!CAMELLIA:!3DES:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4:!RSA';
     ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;

    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;

    location / {
	gzip on;
	gzip_http_version  1.1;
	gzip_min_length    256;
	gzip_comp_level    5;
	gzip_proxied       any;
	gzip_vary          on;
	gzip_types
		application/atom+xml
		application/javascript
		application/json
		application/rss+xml
		application/vnd.ms-fontobject
		application/x-font-ttf
		application/x-web-app-manifest+json
		application/xhtml+xml
		application/xml
		font/opentype
		image/png
		image/svg+xml
		image/x-icon
		text/css
		text/plain
		text/x-component;

        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
	proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;

        if ($uri != '/') {
            expires 30d;
        }
    }

#custom error pages if Meteor stopped working or hit a restricted URL
	error_page 401 /401.html;
      	 location = /401.html {
                root /var/www/error;
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;
         location = /404.html {
                root /var/www/error;
        }

	 error_page 502 /502.html;
          location = /502.html {
                root /var/www/error;
        }
	location = /error-logo.svg {
 	 root /var/www/error;
	}

    access_log /var/log/nginx/example-access.log;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/example-error.log;
}