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Nginx and PHP Setup on Windows

For local development you could also use Nginx with PHP as an replacement for XAMPP.

Install Nginx

• Download Nginx for Windows: http://nginx.org/en/download.html | Direct: nginx-1.19.7.zip
• Extract the ZIP file to c:\nginx
• Open the file c:/nginx/config/nginx.conf and replace the server { ... } section with this configuration:

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After you've downloaded and installed WAMP Server, follow these steps:

1. Generate SSL certificate using OpenSSL:

• Add C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.27\bin directory to the PATH so you can access openssl command from the command prompt (WAMP comes with its own version of OpenSSL already integrated, so you don't need to install it. You'll find it in this directory.).

  IMPORTANT: Please note that the path of your installation depends on your version of Apache! DO NOT copy and paste the paths presented in this gist as they will not match with yours!

• Navigate to your user directory (C:\Users\%YOUR_USERNAME%\), create a new folder (.openssl), navigate to it with Powershell and run these commands:

  openssl genrsa -aes256 -out private.key 2048
  

openssl rsa -in private.key -out private.key

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<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName example.com
        ServerAlias www.example.com
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example.com-error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example.com-access.log combined


        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=301,L]
</VirtualHost>