Sample nginx.conf which for SonarQube 5.6.3

nginx.conf

# For more information on configuration, see:
#   * Official English Documentation: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
#   * Official Russian Documentation: http://nginx.org/ru/docs/

user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

# Load dynamic modules. See /usr/share/nginx/README.dynamic.
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile            on;
    tcp_nopush          on;
    tcp_nodelay         on;
    keepalive_timeout   65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;

    include             /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type        application/octet-stream;

    # Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
    # See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
    # for more information.
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

    server {
        listen       80 default_server;
        #listen       [::]:80 default_server;
        server_name  sonar.mydomain.net;
        #root         /usr/share/nginx/html;

        # Load configuration files for the default server block.
        include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;

        location / {
#                proxy_pass http://localhost:9000;
                return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;
            location = /40x.html {
        }

        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
            location = /50x.html {
        }
    }

# Settings for a TLS enabled server.
#
    server {
        listen       443 ssl http2 default_server;
#        listen       [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server;
        server_name  sonar.mydomain.net;
#        root         /usr/share/nginx/html;
#
        ssl on;
#       ssl_certificate "/etc/nginx/ssl/sonar/self-ssl.crt";
#       ssl_certificate_key "/etc/nginx/ssl/sonar/self-ssl.key";
#       Adding my CA trusted certificate.
        ssl_certificate "/etc/nginx/ssl/test/my.crt";
        ssl_certificate_key "/etc/nginx/ssl/test/my.key";
        ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m;
        ssl_session_timeout  10m;
        ssl_protocols  TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
#       ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
        ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!CAMELLIA:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4;
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
#       Added this parameter to accept large data from http client.
        client_max_body_size 20M;

#        # Load configuration files for the default server block.
        include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;

        location / {
                proxy_set_header        Accept-Encoding   "";
                proxy_set_header        Host              $http_host;
                proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-By    $server_addr:$server_port;
                proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For   $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP               $remote_addr;
                proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
                proxy_pass http://localhost:9000;
                proxy_redirect      http://localhost:9000 https://sonar.mydomain.net;
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;
            location = /40x.html {
        }

        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
            location = /50x.html {
        }
    }

}