How do I setup a SSL certificate for an express.js server?

Question

Before, in an older version of express, I could do this:

express.createServer({key:\'keyFile\', cert:\'certFile\'});

However, in newer vers

Answer 1

I was able to get SSL working with the following boilerplate code:

var fs = require('fs'),
    http = require('http'),
    https = require('https'),
    express = require('express');

var port = 8000;

var options = {
    key: fs.readFileSync('./ssl/privatekey.pem'),
    cert: fs.readFileSync('./ssl/certificate.pem'),
};

var app = express();

var server = https.createServer(options, app).listen(port, function(){
  console.log("Express server listening on port " + port);
});

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200);
    res.end("hello world\n");
});