Hello everyone,
After after days of work i finally get out how to Secure your XAMPP localhost with a SSL Certificate. In the following example i will use „localhost“ as hostname. You can choose another name as well.
First you have to Download mkcert here
https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/releases/download/v1.4.4/mkcert-v1.4.4-windows-amd64.exe
then just use it to create the pem files
mkcert -install localhost 127.0.0.1
Now just follow the instructions.
If all is going right – you get the following output:
The certificate is at "./localhost+1.pem" and the key at "./localhost+1-key.pem"
Now copy the file „localhost+1.pem“ to your xampp folder in the folder
<xampp_folder>\apache\conf\ssl.crt\
Then copy the „localhost+1-key.pem“ file to the folder
<xampp_folder>\apache\conf\ssl.key\
Okay – now you are nearly done.
Now edit the file
<xampp_folder>\apache\conf\httpd.conf
And add the lines below
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias *.localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias *.localhost
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile "C:\xampp\apache\conf\ssl.crt\localhost+1.pem"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:\xampp\apache\conf\ssl.key\localhost+1-key.pem"
</VirtualHost>
Now save it and start Apache in XAMPP – Now you can open the localhost via
https://localhost/
It should work now as SSL Connections.
If you want to add to another URL – just edit the hosts File from Windows and replace the Host in the Example above.
Okay – thats all!
I wish you good Luck and much fun 🙂
Greets Robert