Running Jenkins from a subdomain (like http://jenkins.domain.tld)

Due to people are often struggling getting Jenkins to work behind an NGINX reverse proxy setup I've decided to share my currently running config.

Hope this could be of any help to someone.

server { listen 80; server_name jenkins.domain.tld; return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } server { listen 80; server_name jenkins.domain.tld; location / { proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; # Fix the "It appears that your reverse proxy set up is broken" error. proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080; proxy_read_timeout 90; proxy_redirect http://127.0.0.1:8080 https://jenkins.domain.tld; # Required for new HTTP-based CLI proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_request_buffering off; # workaround for https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-45651 add_header 'X-SSH-Endpoint' 'jenkins.domain.tld:50022' always; } }

Running from a subdomain with SSL

upstream jenkins { server 127.0.0.1:8080 fail_timeout=0; } server { listen 80; server_name jenkins.domain.tld; return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } server { listen 443 ssl; server_name jenkins.domain.tld; ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/server.crt; ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/server.key; location / { proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_redirect http:// https://; proxy_pass http://jenkins; # Required for new HTTP-based CLI proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_request_buffering off; proxy_buffering off; # Required for HTTP-based CLI to work over SSL # workaround for https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-45651 add_header 'X-SSH-Endpoint' 'jenkins.domain.tld:50022' always; } }

Running Jenkins from a folder with TLS encryption (like https://domain.tld/jenkins/)

However, you may want to access Jenkins from a folder on your main web server. This allows you to use the same TLS/SSL certificate as for your top level domain, whereas a sub-domain like jenkins.domain.tld may require a new TLS/SSL certificate (that seems to depend on your certificate provider). You can configure nginx as a reverse proxy to translate requests coming in from the WAN as https://domain.tld/jenkins/ to LAN requests to http://10.0.0.100:8080/jenkins.

Note that this example uses the same settings as currently listed on the wiki article at https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Running+Hudson+behind+Nginx, but with different values for the proxy_pass and proxy_redirect directives.

server { # All your server and TLS/certificate settings are up here somewhere [...] # Nginx configuration specific to Jenkins # Note that regex takes precedence, so use of "^~" ensures earlier evaluation location ^~ /jenkins/ { # Convert inbound WAN requests for https://domain.tld/jenkins/ to # local network requests for http://10.0.0.100:8080/jenkins/ proxy_pass http://10.0.0.100:8080/jenkins/; # Rewrite HTTPS requests from WAN to HTTP requests on LAN proxy_redirect http:// https://; # The following settings from https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Running+Hudson+behind+Nginx sendfile off; proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_max_temp_file_size 0; # This is the maximum upload size client_max_body_size 10m; client_body_buffer_size 128k; proxy_connect_timeout 90; proxy_send_timeout 90; proxy_read_timeout 90; proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k; # Required for new HTTP-based CLI proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_request_buffering off; proxy_buffering off; # Required for HTTP-based CLI to work over SSL }

In addition, you must ensure that Jenkins is configured to listen for requests to the /jenkins/ folder (e.g. http://10.0.0.100:8080/jenkins/ instead of http://10.0.0.100:8080/). Do that by adding the parameter --prefix=/jenkins to the Jenkins default start-up configuration file. On my system (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) the configuration file is /etc/default/jenkins. For example, here's the full JENKINS_ARG parameter list (the only part I added was --prefix=/jenkins):

JENKINS_ARGS="--webroot=/var/cache/jenkins/war --httpPort=$HTTP_PORT --ajp13Port=$AJP_PORT --prefix=/jenkins"

Once configured, you should also set the URL used by the Jenkins UI at Jenkins > Manage Jenkins > Jenkins Location > Jenkins URL to something like: "https://domain.tld/jenkins/.

Running Jenkins behind AWS ELB from a subdomain (like https://jenkins.domain.tld)

This example is suitable for the following request flow: User → AWS ELB → nginx → Jenkins

If you don't use SSL on AWS ELB, remove redirection from HTTP to HTTPS in config below.

In case Jenkins is not the only service on your host, replace server_name localhost with your actual domain name and remove default_server.

server { listen 80 default_server; server_name localhost; # Remove nginx and OS versions from server header server_tokens off; # Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS basing on X-Forwarded-Proto header from AWS ELB if ($http_x_forwarded_proto = 'http') { return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } # Extract real IP from X-Forwarded-For header to see user IP in nginx logs set_real_ip_from 10.0.0.0/8; set_real_ip_from 172.16.0.0/12; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For; real_ip_recursive on; # Proxy all requests to Jenkins location / { proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $http_x_forwarded_proto; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port $http_x_forwarded_port; proxy_pass http://localhost:8080; # Required for new HTTP-based CLI proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_request_buffering off; } }

Being compatible with CSRF protection

This section applies to Jenkins 1.x only. Jenkins 2 uses an nginx-compatible crumb header name by default.

If you enable "Prevent Cross Site Request Forgery exploits" in the Configure Global Security page, you'll need special care for Jenkins to work behind a proxy. You'll need to enable the Enable proxy compatibility checkbox. And you'll need to add to your nginx configuration the following fragment:

http { ignore_invalid_headers off; }