Setup HTTPS on wildcard subdomain on localhost - php

Question

I have created a Laravel application on my local Ubuntu machine. But I want to use HTTPS on all of its wild card sub-domains. How can I do this locally? By the way, I have added my site URL on etc/hosts so I don't need to type localhost but instead www.mysite.loc.
Answer in this question How can I install SSL on localhost in Ubuntu?, I think will only work on the main domain.

Answer 1

No, the answer with this question How can I install SSL on localhost in Ubuntu? is working fine. But you need to modify few lines of code in your conf file.
I manage to try it now and works fine but I got this irritating message from my browser that the site I am accessing is not secure. Though it's okay, since it is just self signed certificate.
In my /etc/hosts I added several sub domains for my local site since it will not work even you configured your virtual host properly because the site your developing is not yet accessible online.
Say, www.mydomain.com, hello.mydomain.com, world.mydomain.com
Now, we need to enable SSL module
sudo a2enmod ssl
Restart Apache
sudo service apache2 restart
Create a folder for Self-signed SSL Certificates
sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl
Generate key and other stuffs for SSL
sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key -out /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt
Answer questions their and use your domain say mydomain.com as Common name
Now I edited the conf file of my virtual host which resides in /etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain.com.conf
This is the what's inside
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
ServerAdmin admin#example.com
ServerName www.mydomain.com
ServerAlias mydomain.com *.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /home/me/projects/www/mysite_folder
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key
<FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</FilesMatch>
<Directory "/home/me/projects/www/mysite_folder">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# New directive needed in Apache 2.4.3:
Require all granted
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-6]" \
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "MSIE [17-9]" ssl-unclean-shutdown
</VirtualHost>
If you already enable your virtual host, you need to skip this step. Else, type
sudo a2ensite mydomain.com.conf
Lastly, you need to restart Apache again by
sudo service apache2 restart
Hope it helps you! You can now access your site using https
Ex. https://www.mydomain.com, https://hello.mydomain.com, https://world.mydomain.com