NGINX reverse proxy to Apache with Wordpress bad gateway

I have followed the guide here (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-nginx-as-a-web-server-and-reverse-proxy-for-apache-on-one-ubuntu-16-04-server)

While they are using Ubuntu we are using Centos 7.2.

Going directly to apache on port 8080 or 8443 (ssl) works. Pulling static files from Nginx works as well on port 80 and 443. However once the configuration is updated to use pass php traffic to apache I get 502 Bad Gateway. I

Nginx Config

server {
    listen 80;
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name www.domain.com domain.com;	

    ssl on;
    ssl_protocols       TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers         ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!eNULL:!NULL:!DH:!EDH:!AESGCM;
    ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:5m;
    ssl_session_timeout 10m;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/domain_com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/domain_com.key;

    root /data/web/corp/domain;
    index index.php index.htm index.html;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        proxy_pass https://127.0.0.1:8443;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }

    location ~ /\. {
        deny all;
    }
}

I have tried to set the proxy_pass to the internal IP, Public IP, domain name, and loopback ip. Seems to all be the same issue.

Apache is set to listen on 8080 and 443.

The Nginx error logs show this:

2017/03/14 23:07:52 [error] 24934#0: *306 upstream prematurely closed connection while reading response header from upstream, client: 71.25.9.17, server: www.domain.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "https://127.0.0.1:8443/index.php", host: "www.domain.com"

Apache SSL error log:

[Tue Mar 14 23:12:36.955268 2017] [ssl:error] [pid 63873] [client 127.0.0.1:45822] AH02261: Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client!?, referer: https://www.domain.com/favicon.ico

Apache SSL access log:

127.0.0.1 - - [14/Mar/2017:23:12:16 +0000] "GET /index.php HTTP/1.0" 403 211

I am not sure where to start as I am new to Nginx but from my reading it seems to be much better/faster at serving up static content than Apache. While our development group currently requires .htaccess we have to keep using Apache.