konklone.com ssl nginx configuration excerpt.

nginx.conf

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

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name konklone.com;

    ssl_certificate /path/to/unified.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /path/to/my-private-decrypted.key;
}

# for a more complete, secure config: 
#   https://gist.github.com/konklone/6532544

This is an accompaniment to my blog post about setting up https:

https://konklone.com/post/switching-to-https-free-and-easy

See the advanced (and more secure) version of using HTTPS with nginx here:

https://gist.github.com/konklone/6532544

Also optional: if you proxy to a server (e.g. Sinatra), you'll want to pass the fact that it's https to that app, so it knows to preserve https on redirects. Otherwise, you'll get a mixed content warning after a https POST + http redirect + https redirect.

    # inside server block...

    location / {
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

       # ...other proxy settings...
    }