This focuses on generating the certificates for loading local virtual hosts hosted on your computer, for development only.
Do not use self-signed certificates in production ! For online certificates, use Let's Encrypt instead (tutorial).
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How to create an HTTPS certificate for localhost domains
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Nginx configuration for CORS-enabled HTTPS proxy with origin white-list defined by a simple regex
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| # | |
| # Acts as a nginx HTTPS proxy server | |
| # enabling CORS only to domains matched by regex | |
| # /https?://.*\.mckinsey\.com(:[0-9]+)?)/ | |
| # | |
| # Based on: | |
| # * http://blog.themillhousegroup.com/2013/05/nginx-as-cors-enabled-https-proxy.html | |
| # * http://enable-cors.org/server_nginx.html | |
| # | |
| server { |