Setup XAMPP Windows as SSL/TLS server
Recently I again needed to check a browser’s SSL capabilities. So, how to setup a test server using it’s own CA? Some time ago I needed to do that previously and found several tutorials, but NONE of them work as written. Now, the same problem again: Find a working tutorial.
This time I sued the one at blog.sortedset.com although the missing images made me nervous. But all over all, the tutorial works with minor changes:
So, I first created a new VirtualBox Windows 6, x64 english test PC (IP address=192.168.0.101). Then downloaded xampp-win32.1.8.1-VC9-installer.exe and installed XAMPP. Next step was to download and install OpenSSL. I used Win32OpenSSL-1_0_1f.exe. Again got a warning about missing VS2008 VC9 runtimes and downloaded and installed that too. Then I followed the tutorial:
http://www.led-mg.de