SSL and Local Development

  • Resolved mayumibk

    (@mayumibk)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, this is not a support request, but I’d like to hear your opinion broadly.

    I usually develop websites with a tool called Local by Flywheel, which enables handy development on your local machine.

    If you also develop your web on local, do you enable force-SSL at development or not? Why do you do so?

    I’d like to have my best practice.

    Regards,
    Mayumi

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  • Plugin Author Mark

    (@markwolters)

    Hi @mayumibk,

    we do use SSL when developing locally. We don’t use Flywheel but MAMP. In short, we have generated our own certificate locally and added that to our keychain so it can be used. We have written a post about how to do this on MAMP: https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/how-to-install-an-ssl-certificate-on-mamp/

    Before activating SSL locally, make sure you can load localhost over https://. If that doesn’t work it’s possible your site will become unreachable.

    Having SSL on localhost is not required, but does help when developing Really Simple SSL. You could just as well develop the site locally on https:// and use Really Simple SSL to move to the site SSL once it has been completed.

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