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How To Get HTTPS Working With localhost

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Introduction

Almost every site you goto is protected by HTTPS. HTTPS allows the sites to be more secure and helps with SEO. But having HTTPS turned on is a problem with developers who are working on their local environment. Most developers run on http://localhost , but when you are using HTTPS, you need to use https://localhost.

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Turning on HTTPS for Chrome

The easiest way to get to https://localhost without issuing yourself a certificate is turning on flags on Chrome. As of Chrome 88, follow these steps to turn on https to develop on localhost.

  1. Go to chrome://flags/#temporary-unexpire-flags-m87 in the address bar.
  2. Set it to Enabled.
  3. Relaunch Chrome.
  4. Go to chrome://flags/#allow-insecure-localhost in the address bar.
  5. Set it to Enabled and relaunch.