Local copy of website vs SSL

  • For testing and try-out purposes I migrated our website to a locally hosted virtual LAMP server with webmin/virtualmin. Obviously I am running into countless Certificate / privacy warnings. A request for a Let’s Encrypt obviously fails since the “real” DNS points to another server.

    Is there anything smart I can do to prevent getting these privacy errors?

    Thanks

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  • Dion

    (@diondesigns)

    If Webmin/Virtualmin supports Let’s Encrypt DNS-1 authentication and your registrar has a DNS API, then you can request a wildcard certificate for your domain.com domain.

    You can then create a local.domain.com virtualhost entry, and when you run your local site via that subdomain, it will use the Let’s Encrypt certificate. Accessing the site will require adding an entry such as this:

    127.0.0.1 local.domain.com

    in your local system’s HOSTS file. This is how I have my localhost system set up, though I use acme.sh to obtain Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificates.

    Thread Starter WP_Con

    (@wp_con)

    That seems smart indeed.
    I will try if I can get that setup
    Thanks!

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