CakePHP 3 - Enable SSL on development server [duplicate] - cakephp-3.0

Question

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit
PHP version: 5.4.6-2~precise+1
When I test an https page I am writing through the built-in webserver (php5 -S localhost:8000), Firefox (16.0.1) says "Problem loading: The connection was interrupted", while the terminal tells me "::1:37026 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)".
phpinfo() tells me:
Registered Stream Socket Transports: tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3,
tls
[curl] SSL: Yes
SSL Version: OpenSSL/1.0.1
openssl:
OpenSSL support: enabled
OpenSSL Library Version OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012
OpenSSL Header Version OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012
Yes, http pages work just fine.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

See the manual section on the built-in webserver shim:
http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php
It doesn't support SSL encryption. It's for plain HTTP requests. The openssl extension and function support is unrelated. It does not accept requests or send responses over the stream wrappers.
If you want SSL to run over it, try a stunnel wrapper:
php -S localhost:8000 &
stunnel3 -d 443 -r 8080
It's just for toying anyway.

Answer 2

It's been three years since the last update; here's how I got it working in 2021 on macOS (as an extension to mario's answer):
# Install stunnel
brew install stunnel
# Find the configuration directory
cd /usr/local/etc/stunnel
# Copy the sample conf file to actual conf file
cp stunnel.conf-sample stunnel.conf
# Edit conf
vim stunnel.conf
Modify stunnel.conf so it looks like this:
(all other options can be deleted)
; **************************************************************************
; * Global options *
; **************************************************************************
; Debugging stuff (may be useful for troubleshooting)
; Enable foreground = yes to make stunnel work with Homebrew services
foreground = yes
debug = info
output = /usr/local/var/log/stunnel.log
; **************************************************************************
; * Service definitions (remove all services for inetd mode) *
; **************************************************************************
; ***************************************** Example TLS server mode services
; TLS front-end to a web server
[https]
accept = 443
connect = 8000
cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
; "TIMEOUTclose = 0" is a workaround for a design flaw in Microsoft SChannel
; Microsoft implementations do not use TLS close-notify alert and thus they
; are vulnerable to truncation attacks
;TIMEOUTclose = 0
This accepts HTTPS / SSL at port 443 and connects to a local webserver running at port 8000, using stunnel's default bogus cert at /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem. Log level is info and log outputs are written to /usr/local/var/log/stunnel.log.
Start stunnel:
brew services start stunnel # Different for Linux
Start the webserver:
php -S localhost:8000
Now you can visit https://localhost:443 to visit your webserver: screenshot
There should be a cert error and you'll have to click through a browser warning but that gets you to the point where you can hit your localhost with HTTPS requests, for development.

Answer 3

I've been learning nginx and Laravel recently, and this error has came up many times. It's hard to diagnose because you need to align nginx with Laravel and also the SSL settings in your operating system at the same time (assuming you are making a self-signed cert).
If you are on Windows, it is even more difficult because you have to fight unix carriage returns when dealing with SSL certs. Sometimes you can go through the steps correctly, but you get ruined by cert validation issues. I find the trick is to make the certs in Ubuntu or Mac and email them to yourself, or use the linux subsystem.
In my case, I kept running into an issue where I declare HTTPS somewhere but php artisan serve only works on HTTP.
I just caused this Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request) error again after SSL was hooked up fine. It turned out to be that I was using Axios to make a POST request to https://. Changing it to POST http:// fixed it.
My recommendation to anyone would be to take a look at where and how HTTP/HTTPS is being used.
The textbook definition is probably something like php artisan serve only works over HTTP but requires underlying SSL layer.

Answer 4

Use Ngrok
Expose your server's port like so:
ngrok http <server port>
Browse with the ngrok's secure public address (the one with https).
Note: Though it works like a charm, it seems an overkill since it requires internet and would appreciate better recommendations.