Hi Maximilian,
You very well might be able to use the certificate issued by AWS if it is configured for your site name.
server {
listen 80;
server_name archives.foobar.com;
return 301 https://archives.foobar.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
root /usr/share/nginx/atom;
server_name archives.foobar.com;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/private/foobar/aws-foobar.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/foobar/aws-foobar.key;
ssl_session_timeout 5m;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:50m;
ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA';
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
client_max_body_size 72M;
(( rest the same as outlined in the documentation ))
If the AWS certificate doesn't work out, you could buy one or set up a free one like Let's Encrypt (
https://letsencrypt.org/)
Please let us all know here how it goes or if you have any more questions.
Regards,
Dave Hume, Artefactual Systems Administrator