Developer-SSL-Certificates

Generate a local Certificate Authority and self-signed certificates for SSL support during local development

Dependencies

You need OpenSSL for these scripts to work.

macOS

On macOS you can use brew to install OpenSSL by executing the following command in a terminal:

brew install OpenSSL

If you don't have brew installed, look at their homepage on how to install brew.

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. cd into the MacOS directory
3. Call chmod +x generate-ca.sh
4. Call chmod +x generate-cert.sh
5. Check the settings in ca.conf
6. Check the settings in certificate.conf
7. Add your local domains and IP-addresses to certificate-ext.conf
8. Call ./generate-ca.sh to generate the Certificate Authority private key and Certificate
9. Call ./generate-cert.sh to generate the Certificate and sign it with the CA private key
10. Import the CA certificate in Key Chain Access

Windows

On Windows, you can use Chocolatey to install OpenSSL by executing the following command in a cmd window:

choco install OpenSSL

If you don't have Chocolatey installed, look at their homepage on how to install Chocolatey.

Installation

1. Clone the repository
2. cd into the Windows directory
3. Check the settings in ca.conf
4. Check the settings in certificate.conf
5. Add your local domains and ip-addresses to certificate-ext.conf
6. Call generate-ca.bat to generate the Certificate Authority private key and CA certificate
7. Call generate-cert.bat to generate the Certificate and sign it with the CA private key
8. Install the CA certificate using the Certificate Manager