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Jonathan Seligsohn
Jonathan Seligsohn
23,116 Points
Posted by Jonathan Seligsohn
Jonathan Seligsohn
23,116 Points

Local Development of WooCommerce WP site - HTTPS

I'm going through the videos one Ecommerce with WordPress and WooCommerce, and have a localhost setup environment. I've enabled HTTPS in the settings page of WooCommerce, however when I go to a page on my localhost that would require HTTPS (like the checkout page), it doesn't work. I assume this is because I don't have HTTPS enabled on my localhost.

Any suggestions how I can enable (or 'trick') HTTPS on localhost? Or is this unnecessary for testing purposes?

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points
Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

Can you please define 'not working'?

If you type in https://localhost, does it bring up https?

Also, what environment are you using? XAMPP?

Jonathan Seligsohn
Jonathan Seligsohn
23,116 Points
Jonathan Seligsohn
Jonathan Seligsohn
23,116 Points

If I type that in, I get the following error: "Error code: ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR". I'm using MAMP. Basically, the test site works but when I click on cart or account (for example), the link is to HTTPS, which the server can't find (it can only find http links). At least that's what I think is happening.

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Zac Gordon
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Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You may have to upgrade to MAMP Pro, although this tutorial covers how to do it: https://tommcfarlin.com/enable-ssl-in-mamp/

If you really want to test SSL and payment gateways though, I would suggest a development server rather than trying to test that locally. Then you can focus on your site dev locally and test the rest in on a live development/testing server.

Jonathan Seligsohn
Jonathan Seligsohn
23,116 Points
Jonathan Seligsohn
Jonathan Seligsohn
23,116 Points

Thanks. I was trying to simulate the entire experience locally, but you're right that I'm better off doing the SSL and payment gateways on a development server. I suppose I should just turn off "use HTTPS" in the settings while developing locally. Nonetheless, I'll definitely check out the link you included.