nginx-ssl.conf

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;
    server_name _;
    return 307 https://$host$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen [::]:443 ssl;
    listen          443 ssl;

        # Protect against the BEAST attack by not using SSLv3 at all. If you need to support older browsers (IE6) you may need to add
    # SSLv3 to the list of protocols below.
    ssl_protocols   TLSv1.2;

    server_name     localhost;
    
    # Ciphers set to best allow protection from Beast, while providing forwarding secrecy, as defined by Mozilla - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Nginx
    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:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-RC4-SHA:AES128:AES256:RC4-SHA:HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on;

    # Optimize SSL by caching session parameters for 10 minutes. This cuts down on the number of expensive SSL handshakes.
    # The handshake is the most CPU-intensive operation, and by default it is re-negotiated on every new/parallel connection.
    # By enabling a cache (of type "shared between all Nginx workers"), we tell the client to re-use the already negotiated state.
    # Further optimization can be achieved by raising keepalive_timeout, but that shouldn't be done unless you serve primarily HTTPS.
    ssl_session_cache    shared:SSL:10m; # a 1mb cache can hold about 4000 sessions, so we can hold 40000 sessions
    ssl_session_timeout  24h;

    # Use a higher keepalive timeout to reduce the need for repeated handshakes
    keepalive_timeout 300; # up from 75 secs default

    index index.html;

    ssl_certificate      /etc/nginx/certs/mpsserver-cert-public.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key  /etc/nginx/certs/mpsserver-cert-private.key;

    #charset koi8-r;
    #access_log  /var/log/nginx/host.access.log  main;

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

    error_page  404              /index.html;

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

}