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Start HTTP server

With self-signed certificate (for testing)

  • Generate certificates, run: ./cert/generate.sh
  • Start server: node server.js
  • Open in browser: https://127.0.0.1:8000/

With certbot (for production)

  • Let's Encrypt is a free certificate authority: https://letsencrypt.org/
  • Use Certbot (free tool for automatically generatinging Let’s Encrypt certificates to enable HTTPS): https://certbot.eff.org/
    • Install: dnf -y install certbot
  • Generate certificate: certbot certonly --standalone -d www.domain.com -d domain.com -m your.name@domain.com --agree-tos --no-eff-email
  • Copy certificate: cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/fullchain.pem ./cert/cert.pem
  • Copy private key: cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/privkey.pem ./cert/key.pem
  • Or use your web server for challenge exchange: certbot certonly --webroot -w ./ -d domain.com -m your.name@domain.com --agree-tos --no-eff-email