Re: Use of Certs

2015-01-05 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 12/29/2014 11:36 AM, Peter Fraser wrote: Hi All I am very new to nginx and am currently doing a lot of reading but would just love to have a nudge in the right direction I want to set up nginx as a reverse proxy for about three IIS servers behind a firewall. One of them is a public web server

Re: Use of Certs

2014-12-29 Thread B.R.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:49 PM, itpp2012 wrote: > nginx will act as an endpoint for ssl so any cert needs to be at nginx's > end. > ​That assumption was not part of the initial statement, which was however saying that the backend server acted as the endpoint. You could then guess that nginx act

Re: Use of Certs

2014-12-29 Thread itpp2012
nginx will act as an endpoint for ssl so any cert needs to be at nginx's end. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,255840,255842#msg-255842 ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx

Re: Use of Certs

2014-12-29 Thread Scott Larson
If you're using nginx as a reverse proxy you'll want a cert set up on that node. Without it, worst case is your link between the proxy and the IIS server is secure but your link between the remote client and the proxy will be insecure defeating the whole purpose. Best case is an error will be

Use of Certs

2014-12-29 Thread Peter Fraser
Hi All I am very new to nginx and am currently doing a lot of reading but would just love to have a nudge in the right direction I want to set up nginx as a reverse proxy for about three IIS servers behind a firewall. One of them is a public web server that handles secure logins. It is configured