Once you have node.js installed on your system, just follow the procedure below to get a basic web server running with support for both HTTP and HTTPS!
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Step 1 : Build a Certificate Authority
- create the folder where you want to store your key & certificate
- mkdir conf
- go to that directory :
- cd conf
- grab this ca.cnf file to use as a configuration shortcut
- create a new certificate authority using this configuration
- openssl req -new -x509 -days 9999 -config ca.cnf -keyout ca-key.pem -out ca-cert.pem
- now that we have our certificate authority in ca-key.pem and ca-cert.pem , let's generate a private key for the server
- openssl genrsa -out key.pem 4096
- grab this server.cnf file to use as a configuration shortcut
- generate the certificate signing request using this configuration
- openssl req -new -config server.cnf -key key.pem -out csr.pem
- sign the request
- openssl x509 -req -extfile server.cnf -days 999 -passin "pass:password" -in csr.pem -CA ca-cert.pem -CAkey ca-key.pem -CAcreateserial -out cert.pem
- create the folder where you want to store your key & certificate
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Step 2 : Install your certificate as a root certificate
- copy your certificate to your root certificates' folder
- sudo cp ca-crt.pem /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ca-crt.pem
- update CA store
- sudo update-ca-certificates
- copy your certificate to your root certificates' folder