Laravel php artisan serve to mimic HTTPS
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. 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