@ind.ie/https-server

https-server

An HTTPS server that uses nodecert.

Design goals

• ✔ Command-line app
• To-do: Easy integration into Express
• To-do: Seamless switch to using ACME/Let’s Encrypt in production

Installation

npm i -g @ind.ie/https-server

Usage

Commandline

https-server [folder-to-serve] [port]

Both arguments are optional. Currently, if you want to specify the port manually, you must also specify the folder-to-serve.

• [folder-to-serve] defaults to . (the current directory)
• [port] defaults to 443 (automatically privileges Node.js to bind to it on Linux. This is not an issue on macOS & Windows.)

If you do not already have TLS certificates, they will be created for you automatically using nodecert.

All dependencies will be installed automatically for you if they do not exist if you have apt, yum (untested), or pacman (untested) on Linux or if you have Homebrew or MacPorts (untested) on macOS.

Help wanted

I’ve currently only tested this on Pop!_OS 18.10 (Ubuntu-based distro). I can use your help to test this on other platforms:

• Windows 64-bit (should work without requiring any dependencies)
• Linux with yum
• Linux with pacman
• macOS with MacPorts

If you get a chance to try out https-server on the above platforms, please let me know how/if it works. Thank you.