gabrieljoelc/https-reverse-proxy

Make a localhost domain resolve https

Purpose

This is an attempt to get localhost on macOS working with HTTPS using a reverse proxy. I extracted the important bits from starterkit-drupal8site for:

1. Pulling and building a Docker image locally from jwilder/nginx-proxy
2. Runing a container from the image that mounts a volume for a localhost cert
3. Adding a localhost cert to the container

I used the Node.js sample app from this blog post.

After I'm done I should be able to get a 200 status code by navigating to https://https-reverse-proxy.local.

Progress

• Add hard coded localhost domain to my macOS host file with:

sudo vim /etc/host

and then append this to the bottom of the file:

127.0.0.1 https-reverse-proxy.local

• Build and run a container
• Get a 200 status code with

curl -I --insecure "https://https-reverse-proxy.local"

This is currently failing with a 502 bad gateway error. I am suspicous that this is related to how I have the port bindings configured.

I also found this issue nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy#1476 (open at the time of this writing) that describes what's happening for me, but even disabling the http2 isn't working.

What am I doing wrong?