How to create an HTTPS server in Node.js?
The Express API doc spells this out pretty clearly.
Additionally this answer gives the steps to create a self-signed certificate.
I have added some comments and a snippet from the Node.js HTTPS documentation:
var express = require('express');var https = require('https');var http = require('http');var fs = require('fs');// This line is from the Node.js HTTPS documentation.var options = { key: fs.readFileSync('test/fixtures/keys/agent2-key.pem'), cert: fs.readFileSync('test/fixtures/keys/agent2-cert.cert')};// Create a service (the app object is just a callback).var app = express();// Create an HTTP service.http.createServer(app).listen(80);// Create an HTTPS service identical to the HTTP service.https.createServer(options, app).listen(443);
I found following example.
This works for node v0.1.94 - v0.3.1. server.setSecure() is removed in newer versions of node.
Directly from that source:
const crypto = require('crypto'), fs = require("fs"), http = require("http");var privateKey = fs.readFileSync('privatekey.pem').toString();var certificate = fs.readFileSync('certificate.pem').toString();var credentials = crypto.createCredentials({key: privateKey, cert: certificate});var handler = function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); res.end('Hello World\n');};var server = http.createServer();server.setSecure(credentials);server.addListener("request", handler);server.listen(8000);
Found this question while googling "node https" but the example in the accepted answer is very old - taken from the docs of the current (v0.10) version of node, it should look like this:
var https = require('https');var fs = require('fs');var options = { key: fs.readFileSync('test/fixtures/keys/agent2-key.pem'), cert: fs.readFileSync('test/fixtures/keys/agent2-cert.pem')};https.createServer(options, function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200); res.end("hello world\n");}).listen(8000);