How to get a free StartSSL.com SSL certificate

I'm writing this up from memory, so errors may appear.

This has been updated to use SHA256 certificates.

Start

Go to http://www.startssl.com/
Click on 'Control Panel'

How to create an HTTPS certificate for localhost domains

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).

First of all you need to be able to run MAMP in port 80. This is a "heat check" if you don't have any process jamming http ports. You can check it like this:

sudo lsof | grep LISTEN

If you do happen to have any process with something like this *:http (LISTEN), you are in trouble. Before with adventure check if it isn't MAMP itself (yeah, you should close that beforehand)

ps <pid of that process>

If you don't see MAMP, you are in good hands, I have just the thing for you:

How to add custom Mail Driver to Laravel

Tested on Laravel 5.8

Within the source code of laravel 5.8 at this time of writing, we have this following

<?php

namespace Illuminate\Support;

wildcard DNS in localhost development

install dnsmasq

$ brew install dnsmasq
   ...
$ cp /usr/local/opt/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.conf.example /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

edit /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

address=/local/127.0.0.1

Install `dnsmasq` and configure for *.dev.local domains

$ brew install dnsmasq
$ vim /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

Reload configuration and clear cache

# Copy the daemon configuration file into place.
$ sudo cp $(brew list dnsmasq | grep /homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist$) /Library/LaunchDaemons/

$ sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist

	UseCanonicalName Off
	<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin nobody@example.com
	ServerAlias *.example.com
	VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%1/public
	DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html

	<Directory /var/www/*/public/>
	AllowOverride All
	</Directory>

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# print usage
	DOMAIN=$1
	if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	echo "USAGE: $0 tld"
	echo ""
	echo "This will generate a non-secure self-signed wildcard certificate for "
	echo "a given development tld."
	echo "This should only be used in a development environment."

	#!/bin/bash
	read -p "Enter the domain name: " domainname
	read -p "Enter the domain e.g. local not .local: " domain
	read -p "Enter country for csr:" country
	read -p "Enter county for csr:" county
	read -p "Enter city for csr:" city
	read -p "Enter company name for csr:" company
	read -p "Enter department for csr e.g IT:" department
	read -p "Enter password for certificate greater than 5 characters:" PASS
	read -p "Enter howmany years for the certificate to last:" certyears

	Artisan
	// Displays help for a given command
	php artisan --help OR -h
	// Do not output any message
	php artisan --quiet OR -q
	// Display this application version
	php artisan --version OR -V
	// Do not ask any interactive question
	php artisan --no-interaction OR -n
	// Force ANSI output