How to Enable HTTPS on XAMPP: A Complete Guide with a Custom SSL Certificate
In this video, I'll show you step-by-step how to enable HTTPS on a locally hosted site with XAMPP. You'll learn how to:
✅ Generate a Certificate Authority (CA)
✅ Create an SSL certificate for your local site
✅ Configure Apache in XAMPP to use the certificate
✅ Add the CA as a trusted authority in Firefox
🔧 This tutorial is perfect for developers who want to test their HTTPS sites locally, without certificate errors.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - Using WSL to generate certificates
02:55 - Generating a Certification Authority private key
03:20 - Generating a Certification Authority certificate
04:58 - Generating a private key for sitomalvagio.com
05:38 - Generating a certificate for sitomalvagio.com
09:47 - Configuring XAMPP
16:43 - XAMPP exposes sitomalvagio.com with a certificate
17:26 - Installing the Ministry of Cats certificate
19:44 - sitomalvagio.com with a valid certificate
20:42 - Comparison with Google Chrome
22:04 - Insights and conclusions