local ssl certificate

[wilma]

Currently I am working on a non ssl version of the catalog.

I would like to work with ssl, but I do not know how to set this up locally.

My hosting provider has a shared ssl certificate, which I want to use, but I want to develop local.

Can anyone help?

I searched the forum and the knowledge base, maybe I have looked in the wrong places? :(

[Guest]

Do you have OpenSSL installed on your computer? If so, the documentation will tell you how to create a self-signed certificate and install it in your webserver of choice.

 

http://www.openssl.org/

[♥Vger]

Some things you can only do online, unless you get into installing a mail server on your computer, getting a dedicated ip address (necessary for a local ssl cert), and then the hassle of trying to install an ssl cert on your local web server. For testing these things I install into a folder on a test site, and password protect access to the whole website - then just use it for testing.

 

There is a way of fooling your local web server into thinking that ssl is installed - but I can't remember where I saw it now! Not that this is much help to you - but maybe you can find out that info yourself - it has to be simpler than installing a real ssl cert.

 

Vger

 

Okay, I like the other answer better.