Testing Service Worker in your local with self signed certificate - Angular
HTTP + SSL => HTTPS
SSL — Service worker
Certificate Generation :
· Clone the following repository on your local machine
https://github.com/RubenVermeulen/generate-trusted-ssl-certificate
· In cmd prompt:
git clone https://github.com/RubenVermeulen/generate-trusted-ssl-certificate.git
· When cloning is done:
cd generate-trusted-ssl-certificate
Setting host name and port — before certificate generation
In “openssl-custom.cnf” CN = localhost with CN = yourdomainname.com
CN = abc.d.com
and [alt_names] to
DNS.1 = *.abc.d.com
DNS.2 = abc.d.com
and save it
double click ‘generate’ shell script
You should now have a server.crt and a server.key file in the repository folder.
Certificate installation: [Windows]
· Double tap the certificate (server.crt)
· Server.crt (dbl click) → install certificate
· Click “Next”
· Place all certificates in as shown below by clicking “browse” and Select “Trusted Root Certification Authorities” then click ok → next → click “Yes” you get prompt
The certificate is now installed.
Configuring the application to use self signed certificate :
Create a folder ssl in the application folder where src resides
Copy “server. Key” and “server.crt” and place inside ssl folder that we have just created.
Make sure you have restarted your browser and updated the start script in package.json as below
Change the start command in your package json to"start": "ng serve --ssl true" and use npm start in your terminal to serve the application[OR]ng serve –ssl true (in your terminal)
