NGINX – Easiest way to setup SSL using .pfx files

I’ll try to explain the easiest way to use a .pfx file that can be used to install SSL on NGINX.

We’ll start by extracting the CRT file using openssl with the following command

openssl pkcs12 -in ./YOUR-PFX-FILE.pfx -clcerts -nokeys -out domain.crt

Followed by extracting the private key with the following command

openssl pkcs12 -in ./YOUR-PFX-FILE.pfx -nocerts -nodes -out domain.rsa

Now we can proceed by setting up a most simple NGINX server using the following configurations

server {
 listen 443 ssl;
 server_name domain.com domain.com;
 ssl_certificate /path/to/your/CRT_file/domain.crt;
 ssl_certificate_key /path/to/your/RSA_file/domain.rsa;

 root /mnt/coming-soon/bushbeans;
 index index.html;
 include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
}

Voila! All done.

This article was first published on the Knoldus blog.