Nginx – New SSL, Safari can’t open the page b/c server unexpectedly dropped the connection (subdomain)

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After much googling and Serverfault browsing I still have an SSL problem :

Safari can't open the page at all, Firefox gives a "secure connection fail" after 5mn of inactivity (not browsing or anything). Chrome/Chromium return a 403 error then quickly reload the page and everything works.

It happened after installing an SSL certificate by Comodo. You can see the report here : https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=marketplace.mercicapitaine.fr&hideResults=on

SSL Shopper is all good :
https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=marketplace.mercicapitaine.fr

TLS is 1.2
SSLlabs says : "The server does not support Forward Secrecy with the reference browsers." and "This server supports weak Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange parameters."

I did a TCPdump, but i'm having a hard time understanding it..

I'm not a server guy so any tips on how to debug/trace error is welcome. It's hosted on NGINX, nothing special on the error log.

Thanks a lot in advance for your time 🙂

Edit: nginx config:

server {
    listen *:80;
    listen *:443 ssl;
    ssl_certificate /home/ubuntu/ssl_2016/ssl-bundle.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /home/ubuntu/ssl_2016/mckey.key;
    server_name marketplace.mercicapitaine.fr;

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

    root /srv/marketapp/;
    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
    fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
    fastcgi_read_timeout 900;


    client_max_body_size 50M;

if ($scheme = http) {
        return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

# This order might seem weird - this is attempted to match last if rules below fail.
location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

# Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests.
rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;

# Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging.
location ~* ^.+\.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ {
       access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
}

location = /robots.txt {
        allow all;
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
}

location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|wmv|3gp|avi|mpg|mpeg|mp4|flv|mp3|mid|wml|swf|pdf|doc|docx|ppt|pptx|zip)$ {
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
        add_header Pragma public;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
}

location ~* \.()$ {
        expires 31536000s;
}





    location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {



        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fcgi.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/ajenti-v-php-fcgi-marketplacemercicapitainefr-php-fcgi-0.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

    }
}

Best Answer

After checking the nginx ssl config from the link in your comment, I would change some things in your config. Let me get on it:

server {
   # more_set_headers "Server: my web server :-)";
   listen 80;
   server_name marketplace.mercicapitaine.fr;
   return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}



server {
   # more_set_headers "Server: my web server :-)";

   listen 443 ssl;
   server_name marketplace.mercicapitaine.fr;

   ssl_certificate /home/ubuntu/ssl_2016/ssl-bundle.crt;
   ssl_certificate_key /home/ubuntu/ssl_2016/mckey.key;
   ssl_session_timeout 1d;
   ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
   # ssl_session_tickets off;

   # openssl dhparam -out dhparam.pem 2048
   # ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/SSL/dhparams.pem;

   ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
   ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGC$
   ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

   add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000;includeSubdomains; preload";

   root /srv/marketapp/;
   index index.html index.htm index.php;

   client_max_body_size 20M;

   location / {
       try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
   }

   location ~ \.php$ {
       fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
       fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/ajenti-v-php-fcgi-marketplacemercicapitainefr-php-fcgi-0.sock;
       fastcgi_index index.php;
       include fastcgi_params;
   }

   location /doc/ {
       alias /usr/share/doc/;
       autoindex on;
       allow 127.0.0.1;
       deny all;
   }

   location ~/\.ht {
       deny all;
   }
 }
  1. Please think about generating at least 2048 bit Diffie-Hellman parameters.
  2. this config above tries to adopt most of your settings and path, please review it to make sure it's correct.
  3. I'm doing a rewrite from port 80 to port 443 via permanent redirect
  4. non ssl / ssl sections split up
  5. see SSLLabs to check your webpage and see, if there are any additional security options you can set up.

I assume you want do setup a wordpress blog.

If there are any questions, please feel free to ask.

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