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

Answer 1

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:

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

2. 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)

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

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).