title: Laravel Homestead - SSL set up
body: <p>I'm trying to start to use vagrant for development - I'm completely new to using vagrant for my development - relying on an apache/php/mysql set up on a laptop.</p>
  
  <p>I'm developing using laravel and have set up homestead and am up and running.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried to enable SSL on the homestead (box?) and followed these instructions to set up: <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-ssl-certificate-on-nginx-for-ubuntu-12-04" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-ssl-certificate-on-nginx-for-ubuntu-12-04</a></p>
  
  <p>I made the changes to the homestead sites_enabled file for the site i'm working on.</p>
  
  <p>I added port 443 just beneath port 80 within the server,added the entries for SSL On etc </p>
  
  <p>I've restarted the nginx server and am able to see my pages using https (although chrome doesn't like the certificate)</p>
  
  <p>If I then try to access pages using http I get a 400 error <code>The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port</code></p>
  
  <p>so  a few questions:
  1. how can I alter the set up to use a combination of HTTP and HTTPS requests?
  2. is it bad practice to serve a site with a combination of HTTP and HTTPS requests - should I simply serve the whole site as https?</p>
  
  <p>Very confused to a completely new subject</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>