Standalone uppy-server doesn't use HTTPS

[vgiotsas]

I'm trying to start the standalone uppy-servrer using HTTPS. Before starting the server I set the following environment variable:

export UPPYSERVER_PROTOCOL="https"

But then when I run npm start the server uses HTTP, also shown in the server output;:

> uppy-server@0.11.2 start /var/www/html/vclass/uppy-server
> node ./lib/standalone/start-server.js

uppy: 2018-04-03T15:55:12.585Z [info] jobs.cleanup.start starting clean up job
Welcome to Uppy Server! v0.11.2
Listening on http://0.0.0.0:3020
^Cubuntu@ip-172-31-36-126:/var/www/html/vclass/uppy-server$ npm start                                                                                                                             
> uppy-server@0.11.2 start /var/www/html/vclass/uppy-server
> node ./lib/standalone/start-server.js

uppy: 2018-04-03T15:55:20.122Z [info] jobs.cleanup.start starting clean up job
Welcome to Uppy Server! v0.11.2
Listening on http://0.0.0.0:3020

Do I need to set any other configuration option?

I installed a server letsencrypt SSL certificate using certbot for apache as documented below: https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntuxenial-apache

[ifedapoolarewaju]

Hi there, Thank you for reporting! I'm afraid uppy-server does not handle https itself. At least not yet. Instead, to use https with uppy-server, you can use a proxy-server such as nginx, or haproxy, which will handle the ssl/tsl business and then forward the request to uppy-server which you would have running internally. This is the way it is done with server.uppy.io

the UPPYSERVER_PROTOCOL option is rather to inform uppy about what protocol your server is using, it is not to used to enable https as you might have earlier thought.

Sorry for the mixup.

[ifedapoolarewaju]

closing this since the question has been answered