vagrant-ssl

SSL for vagrant local development

Becoming a (tiny) Certificate Authority

On macOS, open terminal, go to your vagrant folder (vagrant needs to have access to these files):

1. Generate private key:

openssl genrsa -des3 -out myCA.key 2048

2. Generate root certificate

openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key myCA.key -sha256 -days 1825 -out myCA.pem

3. Adding the Root Certificate to macOS Keychain

• Open the macOS Keychain app
• Draft your private key file (myCA.pem) to System > Certificates
• Double click on your certificate in the list
• Expand the Trust section
• Change the When using this certificate: select box to “Always Trust”

Creating CA-Signed Certificates for Your Dev Sites

1. Download ssl.sh file to your root folder.
2. Copy the file to /usr/local/bin/: mv ssl.sh /usr/local/bin/ssl
3. Make it executable chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/ssl
4. Run ssl yourlocaldomain.local to create certificates for your local domain.

Install SSL on Vagrant’s Apache

1. Go to vagrant ssh
2. Edit defautl-ssl.conf sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf
3. Find SSLCertificateFile replace /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem with your .pem file path (i.e /var/www/myCA.pem).
4. Find SSLCertificateKeyFile replace /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key with your .key file path (i.e /var/www/myCA.key).

Install SSL on your virtual host

1. Edit your virtual host sudo nano /etc/site-enables/yourlocaldomain.local.conf
2. Change default listen port <VirtualHost *:80> to <VirtualHost *:443>
3. Add this code bellow DocumentRoot...

  SSLEngine on
  SSLCertificateFile /var/www/yourlocaldomain.local.crt
  SSLCertificateKeyFile /var/www/yourlocaldomain.local.key

4. Redirect http to https, add this code at the top (before <VirtualHost *:443> block)

<VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerName yourlocaldomain.dev
       DocumentRoot /var/www/yourlocaldomain.local/public
       Redirect permanent / https://yourlocaldomain.local/
</VirtualHost>

5. Restart Apache sudo service apache2 restart

All done.

REF

• https://deliciousbrains.com/ssl-certificate-authority-for-local-https-development/#creating-ca-signed-certificates
• https://gist.github.com/polevaultweb/c83ac276f51a523a80d8e7f9a61afad0

Thanks @polevaultweb for ssl script.