Self-signed certificate for droplet

Posted on February 23, 2020

Hi,

I have a droplet running Spring Boot application. What is the most painless way to setup SSL for it? Is there general option where I can drop in certificate or do I have to configure nginx or apache?

Thanks

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Bobby

February 23, 2020

Hello,

Indeed, what I could suggest is setting up Nginx as a reverse proxy that way you could use Let’s Encrypt to secure your installation.

Your Nginx reverse proxy server block would look something like this:

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        server_name your_domain.com;

        location / {
             proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/;
             proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
             proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
             proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port $server_port;
        }
}

Then you could follow the steps here on how to setup Let’s Encrypt:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-18-04

Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby