Laravel php artisan serve to mimic HTTPS

Question

I have been searching around to see if there is a way I can mock SSL for local development using Laravel's artisan to serve HTTPS with no luck.

Is this possible and if so, how?

I understand this is a very general question, but I am not seeing anything on this in searches.

If you are maybe a Mac user `valet` may help you https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/valet#securing-sites — Vladimir Vukanac, Aug 02 '18 at 18:33

score 29 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '19 at 10:55

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You can use ngrok for that

php artisan serve
cd <path-to-ngrok>
./ngrok http localhost:8000

https://ngrok.com/

answered Feb 16 '19 at 10:55

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This does not answer the question. It facilitates connections from outside the local network, via ngrok, to the locally running web server, but only on HTTP, not HTTPS. – Matthew Setter May 20 '21 at 10:00
@MatthewSetter this does answer the question. when you call `./ngrok http [PORT]` it will create an https proxy to the http version. You can see in the terminal logs something like: https://d16f-2402-800-631d-928e-dc2b-9136-ad8a-bd9f.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:80 go to the link with https and the secure logic should be applied – Phạm Huy Phát Oct 06 '21 at 08:14
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Fair point, @PhạmHuyPhát. Happy to admit I was wrong: https://ngrok.com/docs#tls. That said, the second line's not required if ngrok's installed in the user's path. – Matthew Setter Oct 06 '21 at 11:42

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '15 at 16:02

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Laravel uses the in-built PHP5.4 development server php -S (http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php) for it's artisan serve command (see Illuminate\Foundation\Console\ServeCommand). This only supports plain HTTP, so no, this isn't possible. Your best bet would be to use a Vagrant box set up to work with SSL/TLS.

answered May 07 '15 at 16:02

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vagrant approach might be too expensive for development feature – Phạm Huy Phát Oct 07 '21 at 01:00

SenTisso · Answer 3 · 2020-09-08T16:14:37.607

If you're using xampp, then you can setup HTTPS locally with xampp (this post is also useful for setting up HTTPS) and then you can:

move your project to htdocs folder and visit it with https://localhost/projectFolder/public/

or just create a special VirtualHost in httpd-vhosts.conf for this project (always point to that public folder, this is from where the project is running) and then visit it with https://localhost/ in this example (you can of course, run it on a subdomain if you want to)

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot "c:\pathToYourProject\projectFolder\public"
    <Directory "c:\pathToYourProject\projectFolder\public">
        Options All
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

# this should ensure https (this is mentioned in the stackoverflow post, that I linked as useful
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot "c:\pathToYourProject\projectFolder\public"
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile "conf\ssl.crt\server.crt"
    SSLCertificateKeyFile "conf\ssl.key\server.key"
    <Directory "c:\pathToYourProject\projectFolder\public">
        Options All
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Theoretically, when you're using this method, you don't even need php artisan serve (tbh I'm not entirely sure if it has any purpose in this case).

Question was explicit about artisan serve – IceFire Dec 01 '20 at 07:14 — IceFire, Dec 01 '20 at 07:14

Laravel php artisan serve to mimic HTTPS

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