Hey @User you're the best person to ask about this. I'm using a self-hosted web-server called 'TypeSense' for full-text search. To enable HTTPs it says you need an SSL certificate:

ssl-certificate    false    Path to the SSL certificate file. You must also define ssl-certificate-key to enable HTTPS.
ssl-certificate-key    false    Path to the SSL certificate key file. You must also define ssl-certificate to enable HTTPS.

Why does it need one? Do I use the same certificate to make my Node server HTTPS? My react native app wont allow it to work unless it's HTTPS, (i think), how do I do it? Right now I'm just making requests from my RN app to my Server and just handling all the requests to the webserver via my own server. How comes this works and the other way doesn't?

Do you need to regenerate these certifcates often?

Right.. this is a long and tedious process

wait.. 20 mins

Hahah! okay!

@User you basically need to buy an SSL certificate for your domain. You can do so via many websites. Once you have them, you need to install them in your nodejs server or use nginx or something in front of your nodejs app (which is what we do)

Is it 1 certificate for all my services? node, typsesense etc?

yup. Internal services do not need this certificate.. those can be self signed

Ahh

but external services which can be accessed via https://yourdomain.com will need this one certificate

And what about React Native, If I have a Node Server, and a TypeSense server and a SuperTokens server, how does it interplay

react native accesses your node server via https://yourdomain.com (which requires this certificate). Node server will internally access Typesense + SuperTokens server via http or https (can be a self signed cert)

so basically your react native app should never directly talk to typesense or supertokens

Oh 1 thing

It needs to directly talk to TypeSense

because the client makes search requests

i see. SO then your typesense server will also need to use this certificate

Same 1?

yup

I understand. You've explained what I really wanted to know, I can learn the implementation specifics myself. I've just misunderstood the 'why' of these things

Thanks again dude!

ur welcome 🙂

Oh last thing, does this mean I would use this https://domain.com instead of localhost once I set this up? And when do I know to use 127.0.0.1 vs this specific domain I set up?

For everything i mean

so if you have your servers running on your computer, it's localhost or 127.0.0.1

if they are running on aws or gcp, then it's https://domain.com

even with the certs I can locally use 127.0.0.1?

localally u don't need https

For RN on IOS you do don't you?