Nginx Webserver Config

If you get 'Welcome to Nginx' screen after setting up config

From https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/3190

I installed Nginx using the instructions on the AWS wiki

I followed the the Nginx wiki and reached a point where everything was installed correctly and 'sudo nginx -t' was passing (with warnings), but when I went to the root-url I was still getting the generic welcome screen from nginx saying 'Welcome to nginx! If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required'

I got stuck here for a very long time, fiddling with my config files, until I found this answer. In my install, 'default' files had been automatically created in /etc/nginx/conf.d/ and in /etc/nginx/sites-available/

Once I deleted those files, nginx was working instantly. Propose a new step could be added to the wiki, before the 'sudo nginx -t' step, instructing users to check whether they have those 'default' files and delete them if they do.

CentOS 7

If you use Nginx in front of Wekan on CentOS 7, please try: setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1. This should allow nginx or any other webserver to connect to a container. Please do not disable SELinux

Attachment file size

Meteor.js on Ubuntu 14.04 with nginx

List of Let's Encrypt implementations

Certbot: Let's Encrypt SSL for Nginx

Below config is tested with Debian 9, it did receive A+ rating at ssllabs.com test.

Nginx webserver configs

If you use Wekan at sub url, change / to /wekan .

/etc/nginx/conf.d/example.com.conf or /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf:

# this section is needed to proxy web-socket connections
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
    default upgrade;
    ''      close;
}

# HTTP
server {
    listen 80; # if this is not a default server, remove "default_server"
    listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on;

    server_name example.com;

    # redirect non-SSL to SSL
    location / {
        rewrite     ^ https://example.com$request_uri? permanent;
    }
}

# HTTPS server
server {
    listen 443 ssl http2; # we enable HTTP/2 here (previously SPDY)
    server_name example.com; # this domain must match Common Name (CN) in the SSL certificate

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;

    # If your application is not compatible with IE <= 10, this will redirect visitors to a page advising a browser update
    # This works because IE 11 does not present itself as MSIE anymore
    if ($http_user_agent ~ "MSIE" ) {
        return 303 https://browser-update.org/update.html;
    }

    # Pass requests to Wekan.
    # If you have Wekan at https://example.com/wekan , change location to:
    # location /wekan {
    location / {
        # proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3001/wekan;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3001;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; # allow websockets
        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr; # preserve client IP

        # this setting allows the browser to cache the application in a way compatible with Meteor
        # on every applicaiton update the name of CSS and JS file is different, so they can be cache infinitely (here: 30 days)
        # the root path (/) MUST NOT be cached
        #if ($uri != '/wekan') {
        #    expires 30d;
        #}
    }
}

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
	worker_connections 768;
	# multi_accept on;
}

http {

	##
	# Basic Settings
	##

        ## Max attachment size that can be uploaded to Wekan:
        client_max_body_size 100M;
	sendfile on;
	tcp_nopush on;
	tcp_nodelay on;
	types_hash_max_size 2048;
	server_tokens off;
        set_real_ip_from 0.0.0.0/32; # All addresses get a real IP.
        real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For;
        limit_conn_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=arbeit:10m;
        client_body_timeout 60;
        client_header_timeout 60;
        keepalive_timeout 10 10;
        send_timeout 60;
        reset_timedout_connection on;

	# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
	# server_name_in_redirect off;

	include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
	default_type application/octet-stream;

	##
	# SSL Settings
	##

	ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
        ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:30m;
        ssl_session_timeout 1d;
        ssl_ciphers ECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:ECDH+aRSA+SHA384:ECDH+aRSA+SHA256:ECDH:EDH+CAMELLIA:EDH+aRSA:+CAMELLIA256:+AES256:+CAMELLIA128:+AES128:+SSLv3:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!SRP:!DSS:!RC4:!SEED:!ECDSA:CAMELLIA256-SHA:AES256-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA:AES128-SHA;
        ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/dh_param.pem;
        ssl_ecdh_curve secp384r1;
        ssl_stapling on;
        ssl_stapling_verify on;
        add_header X-XSS-Protection '1; mode=block';
        add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
        add_header Strict-Transport-Security 'max-age=31536000';
        add_header X-Content-Options nosniff;
        add_header X-Micro-Cache $upstream_cache_status;

	##
	# Logging Settings
	##

	access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

	##
	# Gzip Settings
	##

	gzip on;
	gzip_disable "msie6";
        gzip_buffers 16 8k;
        gzip_comp_level 1;
        gzip_http_version 1.1;
        gzip_min_length 10;
        gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript image/x-icon application/vnd.ms-fontobject font/opentype application/x-font-ttf;
        gzip_vary on;
        gzip_proxied any; # Compression for all requests.

	##
	# Virtual Host Configs
	##

	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
	include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

Installing

If you have example.com.conf at /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf, make symlink to sites-available:

Nginx

sudo apt install nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx    # service

Nginx configs

sudo su
cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available/example.com.conf example.com.conf

❗ Check if the user "www-data" exist on your system, if no, you can set "nginx" user in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Test nginx config for errors:

sudo nginx -t

If config is OK, take it into use:

sudo systemctl reload nginx    (or: sudo service nginx reload)

Wekan Snap

sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install wekan
sudo snap set wekan root-url="https://example.com/wekan"
sudo snap set wekan port="3001"
sudo systemctl restart snap.wekan.mongodb
sudo systemctl restart snap.wekan.wekan

More info about backups etc at https://github.com/wekan/wekan-snap/wiki