Installation with Nginx

Installing Nginx

Install the Nginx webserver and the necessary modules.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nginx

Setting Nginx

Create a file /etc/nginx/sites-available/001-site.conf with the following contents, replacing your.site.com with the DNS name of your site.

server {
listen 80;
server_name your.site.com;
}

Create a link:

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/001.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Check if all is correct:

nginx -t

Reload nginx:

systemctl reload nginx

Installing certbot

Install certbot on you server. If you have fresh version of Ubuntu or Debian:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install certbot python-certbot-nginx

Obtaining a certificate:

certbot --nginx -d your.site.com

Setting Nginx to work with SSL

Change your /etc/nginx/sites-available/001-site.conf to following:

upstream xabber {
server 127.0.0.1:8000;
}

server {
server_name    your.site.com;

location / {

proxy_pass http://xabber;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass_header X-CSRF-TOKEN;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on;
proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header   X-NginX-Proxy true;

}


listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.site.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.site.com/privkey.pem;
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;

}
server {
if ($host = your.site.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
listen 80;
server_name    your-site.com;
return 404;
}

Check if all is correct:

nginx -t

Reload nginx:

systemctl reload nginx

Installing SSL certificate into Xabber Server