TLS Configuration

There are two recommended configurations.

1. Configure SSL Termination with OAuth2 Proxy by providing a --tls-cert-file=/path/to/cert.pem and --tls-key-file=/path/to/cert.key.

   The command line to run oauth2-proxy in this configuration would look like this:

   ./oauth2-proxy \
       --email-domain="yourcompany.com"  \
       --upstream=http://127.0.0.1:8080/ \
       --tls-cert-file=/path/to/cert.pem \
       --tls-key-file=/path/to/cert.key \
       --cookie-secret=... \
       --cookie-secure=true \
       --provider=... \
       --client-id=... \
       --client-secret=...

2. Configure SSL Termination with Nginx (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 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:

   server {
       listen 443 default ssl;
       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=2592000;
   
       location / {
           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4180;
           proxy_set_header Host $host;
           proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
           proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme;
           proxy_connect_timeout 1;
           proxy_send_timeout 30;
           proxy_read_timeout 30;
       }
   }

   The command line to run oauth2-proxy in this configuration would look like this:

   ./oauth2-proxy \
      --email-domain="yourcompany.com"  \
      --upstream=http://127.0.0.1:8080/ \
      --cookie-secret=... \
      --cookie-secure=true \
      --provider=... \
      --reverse-proxy=true \
      --client-id=... \
      --client-secret=...