[FIXED] How to setup SSL on a local django server to test a facebook app?

Issue

I've configured my local machine's HOSTS configuration to access the local server ( @ 127.0.0.1 ) whenever I hit http://www.mydomain.com on the browser.

And I was using this to interact with facebook's graph api to build my app. But now facebook requires us to have an HTTPS url or rather an SSL secured url to interact with their api.

So the question is -> How do I setup SSL on a local django server ?

Solution

Short answer is you'll need to setup a proper webserver on your development machine. Use whichever one (Apache, nginx, cherokee etc) you're most familiar with.

Longer answer is that the django development server (manage.py runserver) isn't designed to do SSL etc and the effort to make it do so is likely greater than you'd want to spend.

See discussions of this passim on the django-users list: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/9164126f70cebcbc/f4050f6c82fe1423?lnk=gst&q=ssl+development+server#f4050f6c82fe1423

Answered By - Malcolm Box