I couldn’t find a concise guide to setting this up quickly so thought it was worth a post. To quickly get something working and create a https server using the above versions of openssl and node.js, do the following:
Generate self-signed server certificate with no password
sudo openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout ./csr.pem -out server.crt -days 3001 -nodes
Use this node.js code to setup a server quickly
const https = require('https');
const fs = require('fs');
const options = {
key: fs.readFileSync('csr.pem'),
cert: fs.readFileSync('server.crt')
};
https.createServer(options, (req, res) => {
res.writeHead(200);
res.end('hello world\n');
}).listen(8000);
Go to https://localhost:8000 and accept the certificate, you should see ‘hello world’
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