Securing Your Website: Installing and Configuring Nginx with SSL

July 18, 2024 | Reading Time: 4 min

The Initial Encounter: I recently started to work with Nginx to explore the requirements on how to configure a then so called server block. It’s quite different than within Apache. But there are a tons of good websites out there which do explain the different steps and options quite well. I also realized quickly that I need to be able to configure my Nginx setups in a way so the content is delivered through https with some automatic redirection from http URLs.