SSL in Development with Nginx + Rails

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1. Install nginx brew install nginx
2. Cd into the nginx directory /usr/local/etc/nginx
3. Create a ssl directory, change and generate a dummy ssl cert: mkdir ssl cd ssl penssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -sha1 -days 365 -nodes -x509 -keyout server.key -out server.crt (just accept the default empty settings)
4. Go back to the nginx directory cd ..
5. Create or edit nginx.conf with the following settings:

events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}
http {
  server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name local.dev;

    ssl on;
    ssl_certificate /usr/local/etc/nginx/ssl/server.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/etc/nginx/ssl/server.key;


    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
        proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
        proxy_set_header X-SSL 1;
    }
  }
}

6. Add ssl config in /config/environments/development.rb and production.rb

Rails.application.configure do
 config.force_ssl = true
end

6. Go back to your app directory and run the rails server: rails s
7. Visit https://localhost:3000 and accept any certificate warnings
8. ???????
9. PROFIT!! BAM! You're done!