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You can get .localhost domain with true SSL certs by running something like Caddy locally.
Today's fresh episode #798 Self Hosting: Reverse Proxy Servers >> full episode and links at syntax.fm/798
Discussion on what reverse proxy servers are, popular options, and various use cases like combining multiple apps and servers, handling SSL, security, serving static assets, and local development.
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I didn’t have this issue even at 2000s, just create self-issued ssl and add ca to root on pc and you won’t get any ssl errors. it’s not a big deal, focus on development not these craps
Why not just get a cheap domain with cloudflare and then get a wildcard cert for that domain.
People like this make infra engineers homicidal.
Yes!! We use Caddy extensively at NerdWallet. We’ve come up with a unique convention called Caddy Federation that allows us to stitch together a number of app.Caddyfile files.
Ewwww… i use custom domain setup instead.. this is done locally too and better
This is not very useful… You can’t use for example google apis on this.. But ngrok for example is much more useful.. They even have ingress controller..
Hang on, so actually valid green padlock with localhost domains? Would these be valid on the network as well from another computer? 😮
I want to generate an SSL cert for .internal. I was looking at using step-ca, and then using that cert with Nginx Proxy Manager. Do you think it would be easier via Caddy?
An seo podcast?!?
Anyone remember when .local was a valid Tld for internal use and you could just buy a wildcard cert for it lll
What is the SSL chain of a localhost domain to be valid by a browser? I mean to be "green" it cannot be a self signed but it seems to me that it's what you are doing... It's there a wildcard on localhost tld public available or something similar? Where am I wrong?
Here’s the tutorial
Why is this guy telling Mr. Robot how Caddy works? I think he knows.
So would this allow me to view my Astro project http://localhost:4321/ on my Android during development?! Firefox on my device won't let me. Or is that some whack router settings?