How to host a HTTPS server with a valid certificate in Node.js using HTTPS library

Question

I want to host my own https server, but the certificate I have generated is not valid, and when accessing from broswers it says insecure connection.

Answer 1

You can either implement it in your NodeJS code base or go with http proxy using Nginx or Apache

Using code from this answer:

http = require("http");

var privateKey = fs.readFileSync('privatekey.pem').toString(); var
certificate = fs.readFileSync('certificate.pem').toString();

var credentials = crypto.createCredentials({key: privateKey, cert:
certificate});

var handler = function (req, res) {   res.writeHead(200,
{'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});   res.end('Hello World\n'); };

var server = http.createServer(); server.setSecure(credentials);
server.addListener("request", handler); server.listen(8000); ```

It's recommended using the Nginx method

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-16-04

Add the SSL files in the Vhost

If you want to go with a free SSL try certbot, it will auto-install SSL in the vhost

https://certbot.eff.org/