Routes not working after setting up HTTPS with Express

Question

Im trying to set up my app with an HTTPS connection. After setting it up, Express stop routing requests that were coming in.

var path = require('path');
var express = require('express');
var https = require('https');
var fs = require('fs');

var options = {
  key: fs.readFileSync('ssl-key.pem'),
  cert: fs.readFileSync('ssl-cert.pem')
}

var app = express();
var port = process.env.PORT || 3000;

https.createServer(options, app).listen(port, function() {
  console.log('listening on port ' + port);
});

app.get('*', function(req, res) {
  console.log('test');
  res.send('hello world')
});

I keep getting ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

Does anyone know why this is?

Thank you for your time!

Possibly related: [Node.js HTTPS server ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13318101/node-js-https-server-err-empty-response) and [Node.js app giving ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30917590/node-js-app-giving-err-empty-response) — jfriend00, Jul 03 '17 at 22:03
You HAVE to type `https://localhost:3000`. You can't leave out the `https`. — jfriend00, Jul 03 '17 at 22:04
How can i force express to automatically route to https if I type http? @jfriend00 — Reagan Cuthbertson, Jul 03 '17 at 22:20
You can do it with `Nginx` or `Apache` or redirect all http requests to https — O. Borcuhin, Jul 03 '17 at 22:36
There are at least a dozen answers here on stack overflow that show you how to redirect from http to https. Here's one [Automatic HTTPS connection/redirect with node.js/express](https://stackoverflow.com/a/23977269/816620). — jfriend00, Jul 04 '17 at 00:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '17 at 22:03

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The issue comes, because you use http://127.0.0.1:3000/ or (http://127.0.0.1:3000/), but you need to use https protocol (https://localhost:3000/) certificate for it, to make node.js catch this request

answered Jul 03 '17 at 22:03

O. Borcuhin

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