Introduction
In current days we host websites on Vercel and Netlify and we are automatically assigned a generated SSL to provide with Secured connection(HTTPS), but in the development period we are unaware of the process to run it with HTTPS and we miss out on some testing which works only on HTTPS like google apis, etc.
Steps
- Configure creat-react-app project to handle https
- Generate SSL Certificates for localhost
- Add certificates to the project
- Trust certificate in browser
- Run the project secured
Configure creat-react-app project to handle https
Add a file .env
in the root directory of the project with the line
HTTPS=true
Generate SSL Certificates for localhost
Follow this article to generate a SSL certificate for localhost. and place the certificates in the root directory.
Generate an SSL Certificate With the Root Certificate for localhost
Pranjal Jain ・ Jun 24 '21
after following this article you must have 8 new files in your directory, which are
rootCA.key
rootCA.pem
rootCA.srl
server.crt
server.csr
server.csr.cnf
server.key
v3.ext
Add certificates to the project
in the .env
file add these two properties and there paths.
SSL_CRT_FILE=server.crt
SSL_KEY_FILE=server.key
Here you will be using the server.crt
as your certificate file & server.key
as your key for certificate.
Trust certificate in browser
Follow this article to trust the certificate on your browser
Run the project secured
Hence you have HTTPS enabled for your project.
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