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1. #Node wants to use the local items keychain install#
2. #Node wants to use the local items keychain windows#

Running HTTP when your production site is HTTPS-only is definitely an unnecessary risk. When it doesn’t, you invite more issues showing up in production that didn’t show up in development. You definitely want your development environment to mirror production as closely as possible. The production site is an Ubuntu server running on DigitalOcean with an almost identical configuration. Why not just use regular HTTP locally? Because if your production site is HTTPS-only and you’re developing locally on regular HTTP, your development and production environments are not as similar as they could be.įor example, my development environment for this site (and SpinupWP) runs as an Ubuntu server in a VMware virtual machine (VM) on my Mac.

#Node wants to use the local items keychain windows#

He’s also created videos that layout the process for Linux and Windows users. If you prefer to learn visually, our video producer Thomas has created a video for you that outlines the steps involved in creating your own local CA.

Becoming a (Tiny) Certificate Authority.In this article, we’ll walk through creating your own certificate authority (CA) for your local servers so that you can run HTTPS sites locally without issue. Even if you do manage to generate a self-signed certificate, you still end up with browser privacy errors. Creating a local SSL certificate to serve your development sites over HTTPS can be a tricky business.

#Node wants to use the local items keychain install#

While Let’s Encrypt and its API has made it wonderfully easy for anyone to generate and install SSL certificates on their servers, it does little to help developers with HTTPS in their development environments. This was widely accepted as a good idea, as securing web traffic protects both the site owner and their customers. In 2018 Google started advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption, by marking sites not using an SSL certificate as “not secure” in their Chrome browser.