Why do I get a 404 for my index.page in my http/https nginx setup?

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I'm using WPN-XM (stack with Nginx, MariaDB, PHP and OPENSSL) and am trying to setup OpenSSL in a HTTP/HTTPS server. I'm following the instructions from NGINX here and my server starts/stops without errors.

This is my nginx.conf with the "double server":

server {
    listen              80;
    listen              443 ssl;
    server_name         localhost;
    root                www/login;

    # ssl properties
    ssl_certificate      ../../../bin/openssl/certs/cert.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key  ../../../bin/openssl/certs/cert.key;
    ssl_session_timeout  5m;
    ssl_protocols              SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers                HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on;

    log_not_found off;
    charset utf-8;

    access_log  logs/access.log  main;

    # handle files in the root path /www
    location / {
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   www;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9100
    #
    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files      $uri =404;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9100;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  HTTPS on;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }
}

This is the basic WPN-XM configuration (see here) with a modified server to include a listener for 443 as well as the SSL properties.

I can access my page from http://localhost/foo/index.html but when trying to access it from httpS://localhost/foo/index.html I get a 404.

Question:
First afternoon with Nginx. Can someone point me to what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

Nice that worked! Can you make it an answer, so I can check. Side question: Any idea how to remove the "I don't trust, create an execption" when using OpenSSL? — frequent, Nov 23 '13 at 21:17
Last note: Problem was I loaded jQuery over CDN. Once switching to HTTPs that seemed to cause the warning. If I load the file locally and remove my granted exceptions, the warning does not show up again. So I guess I'm ok while developing. Thanks — frequent, Nov 23 '13 at 21:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '13 at 21:19

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Your root directives should use absolute paths. It's not easy to predict where they are going to attempt to read files from with relative paths.

answered Nov 23 '13 at 21:19

Michael Hampton

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Why do I get a 404 for my index.page in my http/https nginx setup?

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