Here’s how I set up an HTTPS proxy in front of a local service using a self-signed certificate and three lines of Caddy configuration.
I thought this would be a giant hassle, but Caddy made it easy.
The /etc/hosts entry:
127.0.0.1 whatever.local
The OpenSSL command:
openssl req \
-nodes -new -x509 \
-keyout whatever.local.key \
-out whatever.local.cert
The Caddyfile:
https://whatever.local {
tls ./whatever.local.cert ./whatever.local.key
}
The Caddy command:
caddy run
