Setup (https) SSL on localhost for meteor development

Question

How do you create a self signed SSL certificate to use on local server on mac 10.9?

I require my localhost serving as https://localhost

I am using t

Answer 1

Other solution is to use NGINX. Following steps are tested on Mac El Capitan, assuming your local website runs on port 3000 :

1. Add a host to your local machine :

Edit your host file : vi /etc/hosts

Add a line for your local dev domain : 127.0.0.1 dev.yourdomain.com

Flush your cache dscacheutil -flushcache

Now you should be able to reach your local website with http://dev.yourdomain.com:3000

2. Create a self signed SSL like explained here : http://mac-blog.org.ua/self-signed-ssl-for-nginx/

3. Install nginx and configure it to map https traffic to your local website:

brew install nginx

sudo nginx

Now you should be able to reach http://localhost:8080 and get an Nginx message.

This is the default conf so now you have to set the https conf :

Edit your conf file :

vi /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Uncomment the HTTPS server section and change following lines :

server_name dev.yourdomain.com;

Put your certificates you just created :

ssl_certificate /path-to-your-keys/nginx.pem;

ssl_certificate_key /path-to-your-keys/nginx.key;

Change the location section with this one:

location / {
          proxy_pass          http://localhost:3000;
          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-Client-Verify  SUCCESS;
          proxy_set_header    X-Client-DN      $ssl_client_s_dn;
          proxy_set_header    X-SSL-Subject    $ssl_client_s_dn;
          proxy_set_header    X-SSL-Issuer     $ssl_client_i_dn;
          proxy_read_timeout 1800;
          proxy_connect_timeout 1800;
        }

Restart nginx :

 sudo nginx -s stop
 sudo nginx 

And now you should be able to access https://dev.yourdomain.com