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Today I was in trouble for a while because I wanted to setup HTTPS with Nginx and Docker and I completely forgot how to do it. So I decided to write down this guide to help me in the future and maybe it will help you too.
I have a Docker container running a PHP application served by Nginx and I wanted to setup HTTPS with a self-signed certificate because I need to test some OAuth flows.
Follow these steps to setup HTTPS with Nginx and Docker:
Create a self-signed certificate
openssl x509 -outform pem -in localhost.crt -out localhost.pem
Edit nginx configuration
Please take attention to the ssl_certificate
and ssl_certificate_key
files paths.
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name localhost;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/localhost.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/localhost.key;
...
}
Restart docker
If you are a perfectionist like me you can also add the certificate to your system keychain to avoid browser warnings. Using Mac OS you can do it like this:
sudo security add-trusted-cert -d -r trustRoot -k /Library/Keychains/System.keychain localhost.crt
Enjoy!
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