--- title: How to use HTTPS for local development | daily.dev description: Some APIs that won't work on a deployed HTTP site, will work on http://localhost. mkcert is a tool that helps you do this in a few commands. Never export or... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-https-for-local-development-cesyvvjre twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to use HTTPS for local development | daily.dev og:description: Some APIs that won't work on a deployed HTTP site, will work on http://localhost. mkcert is a tool that helps you do this in a few commands. Never export or... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-https-for-local-development-cesyvvjre og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cesYVvjRE.png og:image:alt: How to use HTTPS for local development og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to use HTTPS for local development **[web.dev](https://daily.dev/sources/web)** · 112 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary Some APIs that won't work on a deployed HTTP site, will work on http://localhost. mkcert is a tool that helps you do this in a few commands. Never export or share the file rootCA-key.pem mkcert creates automatically when you run mkcert -install. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@karthik** · 3 upvotes > Running your site locally with HTTPS using mkcert tool **@shadow94x** · 2 upvotes > Nice article! If you need to try https without any configuration ngrok is useful tool as an alternative **@soubinan** · 1 upvotes > Great! **@fatehak** · 1 upvotes > Localhost HTTPS with mkcert **@artoo** · 1 upvotes > wow this is really helpful. 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If you need to try https without any configuration ngrok is useful tool as an alternative","datePublished":"2021-01-27T08:14:02.216Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cesYVvjRE#c-OeEfL4xGT","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Nikolas Mosca","url":"https://daily.dev/shadow94x","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GhJs4whloMFg6buGFCGg6D-v0zIHeFsBn1FQgiztg=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Great!","datePublished":"2021-01-26T17:49:26.524Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cesYVvjRE#c-eCH-ghVy-","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Soubinan","url":"https://daily.dev/soubinan","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/20760371?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Localhost HTTPS with mkcert","datePublished":"2021-01-26T20:03:44.654Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cesYVvjRE#c-cg-Y7ae5Q","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Fateh AK","url":"https://daily.dev/fatehak","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/34565559?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"wow this is really helpful. 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