Create an extra config file for your vhost in /etc/nginx/sites-available/btcpayserver
and create a symlink for this file at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/btcpayserver
The contents of this vhost file should look like this:
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/html;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
# Put your domain name here
server_name btcpay.domain.com;
# Needed for Let's Encrypt verification
location ~ /.well-known {
allow all;
}
# Force HTTP to HTTPS
location / {
return 301 https://$http_host$request_uri;
}
}
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
ssl on;
# SSL certificate by Let's Encrypt in this Nginx (not using Let's Encyrpt that came with BTCPay Server Docker)
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/btcpay.domain.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/btcpay.domain.com/privkey.pem;
root /var/www/html;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
# Put your domain name here
server_name btcpay.domain.com;
# Route everything to the real BTCPay server
location / {
# URL of BTCPay Server (i.e. a Docker installation with REVERSEPROXY_HTTP_PORT set to 10080)
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:10080;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
# For websockets (used by Ledger hardware wallets)
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
}
# Needed for Let's Encrypt verification
location ~ /.well-known {
allow all;
}
}
Also, put the following in your main Nginx config file at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
:
http {
# ... # Existing stuff
# Needed to allow very long URLs to prevent issues while signing PSBTs
server_names_hash_bucket_size 128;
proxy_buffer_size 128k;
proxy_buffers 4 256k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 256k;
client_header_buffer_size 500k;
large_client_header_buffers 4 500k;
http2_max_field_size 500k;
http2_max_header_size 500k;
# Needed websocket support (used by Ledger hardware wallets)
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
default upgrade;
'' close;
}
}
Now test your Nginx config with service nginx configtest
and reload the config with service nginx reload
.
Then, you need to make sure that BTCPayServer does not try to handle HTTPS on its side, you can do this by disabling it on your BTCPayServer instance.
BTCPAYGEN_EXCLUDE_FRAGMENTS="$BTCPAYGEN_EXCLUDE_FRAGMENTS;nginx-https"
. btcpay-setup.sh -i
Notice: If your BTCPay Server install has more than one domain (for example WOOCOMMERCE_HOST
or BTCPAY_ADDITIONAL_HOSTS
) you will need to modify your config for each domain name. The example above only covers 1 domain name called btcpay.domain.com
.