locert is a simple cert generator for local development.

It's a heavilly opiniated certificate generator.

It is designed to generate and install CA and certificate for dev.lo and *.dev.lo.

It relies on openssl to be installed on the system and exposed in the PATH.

In combination with lodns provides easy setup for testing application with https enabled.

To enable support for custom CA in Firefox on Windows and MacOS per official document inside about:config set security.enterprise_roots.enabled to true.

Note: current implementaion doesn't work with Firefox on Linux, implementation planned in the future.

Download correct binary from the latest release and place it somewhere in the PATH.

Or nimble install locert

locert comes preconfigured for all supported platforms.

On MacOS and Linux it will ask for sudo password

locert install

On Windows inside elevated Powershell

locert.exe install

And restart browser.

Certificate and key will be generated inside current directory.

On MacOS and Linux run

locert uninstall

On Windows run inside elevated command prompt or Powershell

locert.exe uninstall

and remove the binary.

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