https://github.com/dakshshah96/local-cert-generator

🚀 A set of scripts to quickly generate a HTTPS certificate for your local development environment.
https://github.com/dakshshah96/local-cert-generator

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🚀 A set of scripts to quickly generate a HTTPS certificate for your local development environment.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dakshshah96/local-cert-generator
• Owner: dakshshah96
• Created: 2018-01-19T06:14:34.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-06-29T18:56:22.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-27T20:37:35.163Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: https, https-certificate, ssl-certificate
• Language: Shell
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• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 955
• Watchers: 25
• Forks: 234
• Open Issues: 8
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  • Readme: README.md

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# HTTPS for `localhost`

A set of scripts to quickly generate a HTTPS certificate for your local development environment.

## How-to

1. Clone this repository and `cd` into it:

```

git clone https://github.com/dakshshah96/local-cert-generator.git

cd local-cert-generator

```

2. Run the script to create a root certificate:

```

sh createRootCA.sh

```

3. Add the root certificate we just generated to your list of trusted certificates. This step depends on the operating system you're running:

    - **macOS**: Open Keychain Access and import the root certificate to your System keychain. Then mark the certificate as trusted.

    ![Trust root certificate](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*NWwMb0yV9ClHDj87Kug9Ng.png)

    - **Linux**: Depending on your Linux distribution, you can use `trust`, `update-ca-certificates` or another command to mark the generated root certificate as trusted.

*Note*: You may need to restart your browser to load the newly trusted root certificate correctly.

4. Run the script to create a domain certificate for `localhost`: 

```

sh createSelfSigned.sh

```

5. Move `server.key` and `server.crt` to an accessible location on your server and include them when starting it. In an Express app running on Node.js, you'd do something like this:

```js

var path = require('path')

var fs = require('fs')

var express = require('express')

var https = require('https')

var certOptions = {

  key: fs.readFileSync(path.resolve('build/cert/server.key')),

  cert: fs.readFileSync(path.resolve('build/cert/server.crt'))

}

var app = express()

var server = https.createServer(certOptions, app).listen(443)

```