nginx proxy for local development with ssl

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What?

Pairs with the WordPress Docker repo for easier local development with ssl certificates.

setup/first usage

This normally lives alongside all dev projects. i.e. at the root of a ~/dev directory

🔥 Before first run the local network needs to be created by running

docker network create nginx-proxy

After that you can bring this up using docker-compose up as normal

Set up an ssl cert for a local domain

If this is the first time setting up a cert:

Set up a local Cerificate Authority (CA)

You only need to do this step once - if you already have one then you don't need another for each site.

• install mkcert
  • on macos that's brew install mkcert and brew install nss
• run mkcert -install

If yoy already have a local CA set up:

Make self signed SSL certs for your local domain and put them in the ./certs dir

# cd into the ./certs dir at the root of this repo
mkcert -cert-file example-site.local.crt -key-file example-site.local.key example-site.local