Testing HTTPS

To emulate the proxying behavior of production, we have set up an NGINX proxy that serves the API over https by proxying to the Gunicorn server which serves over http.

This proxy uses certificates from the nginx/certs/ directory. These certificates can be generated using mkcert with the just cert command.

Additionally, to test with the dev hostname dev.openverse.test, add the following line to your hosts file.

127.0.0.1 dev.openverse.test

Visiting http://dev.openverse.test:9080 in your browser should permanently redirect you to https://dev.openverse.test:9443.