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I'm using WPN-XM (stack with Nginx, MariaDB, PHP and OPENSSL) and am trying to setup OpenSSL in a HTTP/HTTPS server. I'm following the instructions from NGINX here and my server starts/stops without errors.

This is my nginx.conf with the "double server":

server {
    listen              80;
    listen              443 ssl;
    server_name         localhost;
    root                www/login;

    # ssl properties
    ssl_certificate      ../../../bin/openssl/certs/cert.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key  ../../../bin/openssl/certs/cert.key;
    ssl_session_timeout  5m;
    ssl_protocols              SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers                HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on;

    log_not_found off;
    charset utf-8;

    access_log  logs/access.log  main;

    # handle files in the root path /www
    location / {
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   www;

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on
    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files      $uri =404;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  HTTPS on;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;

This is the basic WPN-XM configuration (see here) with a modified server to include a listener for 443 as well as the SSL properties.

I can access my page from http://localhost/foo/index.html but when trying to access it from httpS://localhost/foo/index.html I get a 404.

First afternoon with Nginx. Can someone point me to what I'm doing wrong?


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I suggest using absolute paths in your root directives. –  Michael Hampton Nov 23 '13 at 20:41
ok. let me try. thx so far. –  frequent Nov 23 '13 at 20:58
Nice that worked! Can you make it an answer, so I can check. Side question: Any idea how to remove the "I don't trust, create an execption" when using OpenSSL? –  frequent Nov 23 '13 at 21:17
Use a real certificate and not a self-signed one. –  Michael Hampton Nov 23 '13 at 21:18
Ah yes, somehow I expected that answer :-) –  frequent Nov 23 '13 at 21:22

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up vote 2 down vote accepted

Your root directives should use absolute paths. It's not easy to predict where they are going to attempt to read files from with relative paths.

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Thanks! Helped. –  frequent Nov 23 '13 at 21:22

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