nginx.conf

echo 'events {
    worker_connections            1024;
}

error_log                         /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.5.8/error.log;

http {
  include                         mime.types;
  default_type                    application/octet-stream;
  sendfile                        on;
  tcp_nopush                      on;
  tcp_nodelay                     on;
  keepalive_timeout               120;
  gzip                            on;
  gzip_comp_level                 3;
  gzip_proxied                    any;
  gzip_types                      text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml;

  client_max_body_size            10M;
  access_log                      /dev/null;


  upstream jira_upstream {
    server                        127.0.0.1:8080 fail_timeout=120s;
    keepalive                     8;
  }

  server {
    listen                        8000 ssl spdy;
    spdy_headers_comp             3;
    ssl_certificate               /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.5.8/server.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key           /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.5.8/server.key;

    ssl_protocols                 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers                   RC4:HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers     on;
    ssl_session_cache             shared:SSL:10m;

    error_page                    497 https://$host:8000$request_uri;
    add_header                    Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=16070400; includeSubdomains";

    location /jira {
      proxy_pass                  http://jira_upstream/jira;
      proxy_redirect              off;
      proxy_buffering             off; 

      proxy_set_header            Host $host;
      proxy_set_header            X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header            X-Forwarded-for $remote_addr;
      proxy_connect_timeout       120;
      proxy_send_timeout          120;
      proxy_read_timeout          180;

      proxy_http_version          1.1;
      proxy_set_header            Connection "";
    }
  }
}

server.xml

<Server>
  <Service name="Catalina">

    <Connector port="8080"
      protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"
      scheme="https" 
      proxyName="localhost" 
      proxyPort="8000" 
      socket.txBufSize="64000"
      socket.rxBufSize="64000"

      maxThreads="25"
      minSpareThreads="5"
      enableLookups="false"
      maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
      acceptCount="100"
      disableUploadTimeout="true"

      connectionTimeout="60000"
      maxKeepAliveRequests="25" 
      useBodyEncodingForURI="true"
    />

    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
      <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
        <Context path="/jira" docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-jira" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">
          <Resource name="UserTransaction" auth="Container" type="javax.transaction.UserTransaction"
            factory="org.objectweb.jotm.UserTransactionFactory" jotm.timeout="60"/>
          <Manager pathname=""/>
        </Context>
      </Host>
    ....
    </Engine>

  </Service>
</Server>