diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 06d545e..0392723 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ RUN echo "daemon off;" >> /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 #fix for long server names
 RUN sed -i 's/# server_names_hash_bucket/server_names_hash_bucket/g' /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 
+# Generate dummy SSL certificates
+RUN mkdir /ssl
+RUN openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -subj "/C=US/ST=Denial/L=Springfield/O=Dis/CN=www.example.org" -nodes -out /ssl/nginx.pem -keyout /ssl/nginx.key
+
 RUN mkdir /app
 WORKDIR /app
 ADD . /app
@@ -24,6 +28,7 @@ RUN wget https://github.com/jwilder/docker-gen/releases/download/0.3.2/docker-ge
 RUN tar xvzf docker-gen-linux-amd64-0.3.2.tar.gz
 
 EXPOSE 80
+EXPOSE 443
 ENV DOCKER_HOST unix:///tmp/docker.sock
 
 CMD ["forego", "start", "-r"]
diff --git a/access.log b/access.log
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/error.log b/error.log
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..205c198
--- /dev/null
+++ b/error.log
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+2014/08/23 14:25:03 [notice] 27#0: signal process started
+2014/08/23 14:25:05 [notice] 33#0: signal process started
+2014/08/23 14:25:07 [notice] 38#0: signal process started
diff --git a/nginx.tmpl b/nginx.tmpl
index 2f1eac4..3972b66 100644
--- a/nginx.tmpl
+++ b/nginx.tmpl
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 server {
-	listen 80 default_server;
-	server_name _; # This is just an invalid value which will never trigger on a real hostname.
-	error_log /proc/self/fd/2;
-	access_log /proc/self/fd/1;
-	return 503;
+      listen 80;
+      listen 443 default_server ssl;
+      ssl_certificate     /ssl/nginx.pem;
+      ssl_certificate_key /ssl/nginx.key;
+      server_name _; # This is just an invalid value which will never trigger on a real hostname.
+      error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
+      access_log /proc/self/fd/1;
+      return 503;
 }
 
 {{ range $host, $containers := groupByMulti $ "Env.VIRTUAL_HOST" "," }}
@@ -41,20 +44,20 @@ upstream {{ $host }} {
 }
 
 server {
-	gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
+    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
+    
+    listen 80;
+    listen 443 ssl;
+    server_name {{ $host }};
+    proxy_buffering off;
+    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
+    access_log /proc/self/fd/1;
 
-	server_name {{ $host }};
-	proxy_buffering off;
-	error_log /proc/self/fd/2;
-	access_log /proc/self/fd/1;
-
-	location / {
-		proxy_pass http://{{ $host }};
-		include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;
-
-		# HTTP 1.1 support
-		proxy_http_version 1.1;
-		proxy_set_header Connection "";
-	}
+    location / {
+        proxy_set_header   Host $host;
+        proxy_http_version 1.1;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
+        proxy_pass http://{{ $host }};
+    }
 }
 {{ end }}