How to enable ssl for nginx?

Recently, I wrote a new blog server as my personal blog website. However, I want it to support Https protocol not the insecure Http protocol.

So I do some research and find the resolution.

• Install nginx and mkcert
• create certification: mkcert heng30.xyz "*.heng30.xyz" localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1
• configure nginx configuration /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

 server {
        listen       443 ssl;
        server_name  heng30.xyz;

        ssl_certificate      path-to-certification.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key  path-to-private-key.pem;

        ssl_session_cache    shared:SSL:1m;
        ssl_session_timeout  5m;

        ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on;

        location / {
            root   html;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }

        # location / {
        #    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:80/;
        # }
    }

• restart nginx: systemctl status nginx.service
• maybe setup the DNS record on your DNS provider configuration page

Enjoy your nginx server using the https protocol.