Jenkins - Nginx Reverse Proxy Configuration

Below is my working Nginx site configuration for reverse proxying my Jenkins deployment. I ended up having to strip out my default proxy configuration stuff, and copying as much as possible from the Jenkins docs. I am posting this to help prevent me having to go through the same pain ever again.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name jenkins.mydomain.com;
    return 302 https://jenkins.mydomain.com$request_uri;
}


server {
    listen 443 ssl;

    ssl on;

    server_name jenkins.mydomain.com;

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

    ssl_certificate      ssl/jenkins.mydomain.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key  ssl/jenkins.mydomain.com/privkey.pem;

    ssl_protocols        TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers RC4:HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    keepalive_timeout    60;
    ssl_session_cache    shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_session_timeout  10m;


    location / {

      sendfile off;
      proxy_pass         http://192.168.0.28:8080;

      proxy_redirect     default;
      proxy_http_version 1.1;

      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;
      proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Port  443;
      proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;

      #this is the maximum upload size
      client_max_body_size       10m;
      client_body_buffer_size    128k;

      proxy_connect_timeout      90;
      proxy_send_timeout         90;
      proxy_read_timeout         90;
      proxy_buffering            off;
      proxy_request_buffering    off; # Required for HTTP CLI commands in Jenkins > 2.54
      proxy_set_header Connection ""; # Clear for keepalive
    }
}

Be sure to change jenkins.mydomain.com to whatever your FQDN is, and the IP address of 192.168.0.28 to whatever is appropriate for you.

References

• Jenkins.io - Reverse proxy - Nginx