SSL certificate for testing

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Hey there guys,

I am currently developing a custom module for opencart to use in my ecommerce business. I expect to be in the testing phase for a number of weeks and I am of course testing on a local machine with W.A.M.P. installed.

I need to take people’s credit/debit card details over a secure connection and I wish to use HTTPS - Secure socket layer encryption. My question is, what is the best way to test this? Can I get a free ssl certificate from somewhere to use for now and then purchase later when I am happy with the software?

thanks

Will Edwards

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Presumably for development you’ll be using dummy credit card details? :slight_smile:

You can setup an unsigned SSL cert on your development machine, accept the warnings from the browser as an exception locally.

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You could create your own SSL cert and tell your browser to accept it. Then you wouldn’t get warnings.