This tutorial will show you how to set up HSTS in NGINX and Apache. It has been tested with NGINX 1.1.19 and Apache 2.2.22 on Ubuntu 12.04, Debian 6 & 7 and CentOS 6. However, these are just the referenced versions and it should work on other distributions as well.

This post will review what OCSP stapling is and does. We'll also lay out the steps necessary to configure OCSP Stapling on both NGINX and Apache.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up secure SSL protection on an NGINX web server to help mitigate malicious attacks.