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 if so, how?

I understand this is a very general question, but I am not seeing anything on this in searches.

Solution 1

You can use ngrok for that

php artisan serve
cd <path-to-ngrok>
./ngrok http localhost:8000

https://ngrok.com/

Solution 2

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 SSL/TLS.

Comments

[Vladimir Vukanac]

If you are maybe a Mac user valet may help you laravel.com/docs/5.6/valet#securing-sites

[IceFire]

Question was explicit about artisan serve

[Matthew Setter]

This does not answer the question. It facilitates connections from outside the local network, via ngrok, to the locally running web server, but only on HTTP, not HTTPS.

[Phạm Huy Phát]

@MatthewSetter this does answer the question. when you call ./ngrok http [PORT] it will create an https proxy to the http version. You can see in the terminal logs something like: d16f-2402-800-631d-928e-dc2b-9136-ad8a-bd9f.ngrok.io -> localhost:80 go to the link with https and the secure logic should be applied

[Matthew Setter]

Fair point, @PhạmHuyPhát. Happy to admit I was wrong: ngrok.com/docs#tls. That said, the second line's not required if ngrok's installed in the user's path.

[Phạm Huy Phát]

vagrant approach might be too expensive for development feature