Kaiser Documentation
Suffixes in Kaiser
By default, Kaiser starts up an NGINX server on port 80 and 443 on your computer as a reverse proxy to all the applications started on it. It also uses a by default the lvh.me suffix.
This means that if you start an app on Kaiser with the environment name foo then the URL on your computer will be http://foo.lvh.me
lvh.me is a domain that is set up in such a way that all of its subdomains also point to 127.0.0.1.
Reverse proxy
Why does it magically work?
By default kaiser sets up a reverse proxy that puts all your apps on a subdomain of (lvh.me)[lvh.me]. This means all your environments can be accessed like so: envname.lvh.me. Easy.
HTTPS
If you want to you can create a self-signed HTTPS certificate for lvh.me, trust it and use it to access your dev sites with HTTPS! (Cool! Now you can debug your websites in HTTPS!)
It is easy to do this: Simply run
kaiser set cert-folder /home/me/my-certificate-folder
As preparation you need to generate HTTPS certificates. You should have the following files:
/home/me/my-certificate-folder/lvh.me.crt /home/me/my-certificate-folder/lvh.me.key /home/me/my-certificate-folder/lvh.me.chain.pem
Hint: you can create the .chain.pem file by going
cat lvh.me.crt >> lvh.me.key cat lvh.me.crt >> lvh.me.crt
Remember to trust your certificates! Otherwise your browser will give you an error (if it isn't dodgy).
If you and your colleagues all want to sign using the same certificates, simply put the certificates on a webserver and go:
kaiser set cert-url https://internal-site.com/dev-certificates
and Kaiser will look for certificates at:
https://internal-site.com/dev-certificates/lvh.me.crt https://internal-site.com/dev-certificates/lvh.me.key https://internal-site.com/dev-certificates/lvh.me.chain.pem
HTTP/HTTPS Your own domain
If you have a fancy setup where you have your own localhost domain (like local.aweso.me) and you can generate your own SSL certificates (yes, very fancy) then you can set the suffix of your domain like this:
kaiser set http-suffix local.aweso.me
And your apps will be all envname.local.aweso.me
If you change these settings
You will need to run
kaiser shutdown
And run
kaiser up
Again for changes to take effect.