[FIXED] Testing HTTPS files with MAMP

Issue

I am running MAMP locally on my laptop, and I like to test as much as I can locally. Unfortunately, since I work on e-commerce stuff (PHP), I normally force ssl in most of the checkout forms and it just fails on my laptop. Is there any easy configuration that I might be missing to allow "https" to run under MAMP? Please note, I know that I could configure Apache by hand, re-compile PHP, etc. but I'm just wondering if there's an easier way for a lazy programmer.

Thanks

Solution

NOTE: startssl is no longer supported after version 2+ of MAMP. You have to update the config files (httpd.conf) to enable ssl.

You can modify the free version of MAMP to enable ssl by default very easily. Once you have setup all the SSL parts of apache and have it working so that calling apachectl startssl works, just edit the file

/Applications/MAMP/startApache.sh

in your favorite text editor and change the start argument to startssl and you will have the MAMP launcher starting apache in ssl mode for you.

Answered By - Rodney Amato