nginx-ssl-secure-reverse-proxy

# forward web traffic from https://api.examplewebsite.com to http://127.0.0.1:6000
#file location: /etc/nginx/conf.d/virtual.conf

server {
   	listen 80;
    listen       443 ssl;
	server_name api.examplewebsite.com;
	
    ssl_certificate    /etc/ssl/ssl_2020/certbundle.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/ssl_2020/key/examplewebsite.key;

    
    ssl_protocols 	TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA';
	
    ssl_session_timeout 5m;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m; # a 1mb cache can hold about 4000 sessions, so we can hold 40000 sessions

    location / {
        root   /var/www/api.examplewebsite.com/public_html/;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

    location /v1/ {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:6000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }

    access_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.api.examplewebsite.com.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.api.examplewebsite.com.error.log;
}