Enable the SSL configuration method in the Nginx server

Generate a certificate
You can generate a simple certificate by following these steps:
First, go to the directory where you want to create the certificate and private key, for example:

$ cd /usr/local/nginx/conf

Create a server private key and the command will ask you to enter a password:

$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024

Create a certificate to sign the request (CSR) :

$ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

Remove the required password when loading Nginx supported by SSL and using the private key above:

$ cp server.key server.key.org
$ openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key

Enable 1 SSL virtual host

In the nginx.conf configuration file:

server {
   listen 443;
   server_name example.com;

   root /apps/www;
   index index.html index.htm;

   ssl on;
   ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/nginx.crt;
   ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/nginx.key;

#    ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
#    ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP;
#    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

}

Where ssl_certificate represents the CA file and ssl_certificate_key represents the key file.

If you want to force an http request to https, you can do this:

server {
listen   80;
server_name example.me;

return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}