OpenSSL and Configuring https on Localhost
Open ssl will allow you to generate a unique ssl certificate for your local server.. if you plan on doing any deployment or customization of apps like magenta, you’ll need it to configure it correctly.
Update 3/14/2020 – Yeah, I’m sorry if you found this original post. I used to just post linearly in reference to whatever I was working on at the time. I found it via my sitemap file. This is something that I’ve done and had to redo a bunch of different ways over the years. Instead of just rehashing those methods, I’ll go ahead and provide you with some decent resources in case you run across this page:
- https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/288517/how-to-make-self-signed-certificate-for-localhost
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49553138/how-to-make-browser-trust-localhost-ssl-certificate
- https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-https-working-on-your-local-development-environment-in-5-minutes-7af615770eec/
- https://deliciousbrains.com/ssl-certificate-authority-for-local-https-development/
- https://davidawindham.com/til/?q=openssl