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I've added an SSL certificate to my server. (Nginx running passenger & Rails).

I created a CSR, uploaded to GoDaddy, downloaded the keys. Inside /srv/ssl I have

www.mydomain.com.crt
www.mydomain.com.key

My nginx Version:

nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.2.6
built by gcc 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/nginx --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-cc-opt=-Wno-error --with-pcre=/tmp/root-passenger-27798/pcre-8.31 --add-module=/home/deploy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/passenger-3.0.19/ext/nginx

I added this to my nginx.conf file:

server {
    listen       443;
    server_name  localhost;

    ssl_certificate    /srv/ssl/www.mydomain.com.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key  /srv/ssl/www.mydomain.com.key;

    location / {
        root   html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

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

Besides the two ssl lines and the port being on 443 instead of 80, the server block is identical to the one above it which serves the regular http.

When I use

listen 443 ssl; and uncomment this:

# ssl_session_timeout 5m;

#    ssl_protocols  SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
#    ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
#    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers   on;

Then I get an SSL expired warning.

When I re-comment those and just use

listen 443 ssl;

Then I get an error but, when I visit

https://www.mydomain.com/login with a www, I get a green lock in Chrome but a 404. Does this mean I have SSL configured for "www" but not the non-www?

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Your server_name is set to localhost. You have to put your domain name there (www.domain.com, if your cert has www. prefix), so that nginx can select the proper vhost during SSL negotiation.

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