The web has evolved over the years , web development is becoming hard every day
be a hard core linux user (ubuntu) user for years - few days i changed my laptop and boom i had to install some packages and get my new baby back to the game ,

been that my computer hasn't crashed for upto 4 years i have forgotten some of the basic tools and there name
so i found myself for 30 minutes to hours trying to install enable ssl on my localhost it was funny but this could happen to anybody so i say make i drop this tutorial in case any day again i will just enter here and follow my own guide

STEP 1 .
Make sure you have installed xampp or lammp
download a tool called "mkcert" i think it also available windows
FOR UNBUNTU (DEBIAN) user - open terminal with "Ctrl+Alt+T"
enter this command :

sudo apt intsall mkcert

STEP 2 .
after download confirm that package was installed successfully
run this command to generate CAROOT

mkcert -install

it will generate a caroot and install it for your firefox and chrome automatically
the file will be located at "/home/{your computer name }/.local/share/mkcert"
with the files there u can also import it into other devices u plan to test your website and web app with


STEP 3 .

create or navigate to any existing folder and open terminal there and type below command based on device connected to your laptop and
localhost , for me i wanted the ssl to work for my localhost url , and also for my android device i use to do testing

mkcert localhost 127.0.01 192.168.1.Bleep 

it generate two files xxxxxx.pem and xxxxxx-key.pem



STEP 4 .
to use it in lampp or xampp
locate and edit this file /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

find this lines in the file and edit
1. SSLCertificateFile "xxxxxx.pem"
2. SSLCertificateKeyFile "xxxxxx-key.pem"


xxxxxx.pem is path to ur cert generated at step 3 in my case i put it in a folder /home/ssl/127.0.0.1+2.pem
dont copy this na just to give u example


once u are done doing that save and restart restart ur xampp/lampp

and visit https://localhost


below is my localhost with ssl

Nice work 👍👍

Blaze9:
Nice work 👍👍

Thanks