diff --git a/lib/support/nginx/gitlab b/lib/support/nginx/gitlab
index 49a68c62293c..eeba62c6b10a 100644
--- a/lib/support/nginx/gitlab
+++ b/lib/support/nginx/gitlab
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ## GitLab
-## Maintainer: @randx
+## Contributors: randx, yin8086, sashkab, orkoden, axilleas, bbodenmiller
 ##
 ## Lines starting with two hashes (##) are comments with information.
 ## Lines starting with one hash (#) are configuration parameters that can be uncommented.
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 ## - installing an old version of Nginx with the chunkin module [2] compiled in, or
 ## - using a newer version of Nginx.
 ##
-## At the time of writing we do not know if either of these theoretical solutions works. 
+## At the time of writing we do not know if either of these theoretical solutions works.
 ## As a workaround users can use Git over SSH to push large files.
 ##
 ## [0] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt#n99
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 ##         configuration         ##
 ###################################
 ##
+## See installation.md#using-https for additional HTTPS configuration details.
 
 upstream gitlab {
   server unix:/home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/gitlab.socket fail_timeout=0;
@@ -42,6 +43,8 @@ server {
   ## Or if you want to accept large git objects over http
   client_max_body_size 20m;
 
+  ## See app/controllers/application_controller.rb for headers set
+
   ## Individual nginx logs for this GitLab vhost
   access_log  /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log;
   error_log   /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log;
diff --git a/lib/support/nginx/gitlab-ssl b/lib/support/nginx/gitlab-ssl
index cbb198086b5b..979e032a1c57 100644
--- a/lib/support/nginx/gitlab-ssl
+++ b/lib/support/nginx/gitlab-ssl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ## GitLab
-## Contributors: randx, yin8086, sashkab, orkoden, axilleas
+## Contributors: randx, yin8086, sashkab, orkoden, axilleas, bbodenmiller
 ##
 ## Modified from nginx http version
 ## Modified from http://blog.phusion.nl/2012/04/21/tutorial-setting-up-gitlab-on-debian-6/
@@ -26,9 +26,8 @@
 ## [1] https://github.com/agentzh/chunkin-nginx-module#status
 ## [2] https://github.com/agentzh/chunkin-nginx-module
 ##
-##
 ###################################
-##        SSL configuration      ##
+##         configuration         ##
 ###################################
 ##
 ## See installation.md#using-https for additional HTTPS configuration details.
@@ -37,22 +36,22 @@ upstream gitlab {
   server unix:/home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/gitlab.socket fail_timeout=0;
 }
 
-## Normal HTTP host
+## Redirects all HTTP traffic to the HTTPS host
 server {
   listen *:80 default_server;
   server_name YOUR_SERVER_FQDN; ## Replace this with something like gitlab.example.com
   server_tokens off; ## Don't show the nginx version number, a security best practice
-
-  ## Redirects all traffic to the HTTPS host
-  root /nowhere; ## root doesn't have to be a valid path since we are redirecting
-  rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
+  return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
+  access_log  /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log;
+  error_log   /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log;
 }
 
+
 ## HTTPS host
 server {
   listen 443 ssl;
   server_name YOUR_SERVER_FQDN; ## Replace this with something like gitlab.example.com
-  server_tokens off;
+  server_tokens off; ## Don't show the nginx version number, a security best practice
   root /home/git/gitlab/public;
 
   ## Increase this if you want to upload large attachments
@@ -70,12 +69,9 @@ server {
   ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
   ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
   ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
+  ssl_session_timeout 5m;
 
-  ## [WARNING] The following header states that the browser should only communicate
-  ## with your server over a secure connection for the next 24 months.
-  add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=63072000;
-  add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
-  add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
+  ## See app/controllers/application_controller.rb for headers set
 
   ## [Optional] If your certficate has OCSP, enable OCSP stapling to reduce the overhead and latency of running SSL.
   ## Replace with your ssl_trusted_certificate. For more info see: