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Doc updates clarifying external Load Balancer config

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Jehiah Czebotar 2015-07-02 23:21:59 -04:00
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@ -160,11 +160,15 @@ The command line to run `oauth2_proxy` in this configuration would look like thi
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2) Configure SSL Termination with [Nginx](http://nginx.org/) (example config below) or Amazon ELB, or ....
2) Configure SSL Termination with [Nginx](http://nginx.org/) (example config below), Amazon ELB, Google Cloud Platform Load Balancing, or ....
Because `oauth2_proxy` listens on `127.0.0.1:4180` by default, to listen on all interfaces (needed when using an
external load balancer like Amazon ELB or Google Platform Load Balancing) use `--http-address="0.0.0.0:4180"` or
`--http-address="http://:4180"`.
Nginx will listen on port `443` and handle SSL connections while proxying to `oauth2_proxy` on port `4180`.
`oauth2_proxy` which will then authenticate requests for an upstream application. The external
endpoint for this example would be `https://internal.yourcompany.com/`.
`oauth2_proxy` will then authenticate requests for an upstream application. The external endpoint for this example
would be `https://internal.yourcompany.com/`.
An example Nginx config follows. Note the use of `Strict-Transport-Security` header to pin requests to SSL
via [HSTS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security):
@ -175,7 +179,7 @@ server {
server_name internal.yourcompany.com;
ssl_certificate /path/to/cert.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /path/to/cert.key;
add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=1209600;
add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=2592000;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4180;