How to Enable SSL on Xampp with Vhosts

If you need to enable SSL on Xampp whilst stilling using vhosts, follow the next few steps. It assumes that you already have vhosts enabled.

Open xampp/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Around line 19 you should see “NameVirtualHost *:80″, below this line add “NameVirtualHost *:443″ (without quotes)

Then add a new vhost site just like a normal one but with *443 instead on *80 and the following lines:

SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl.key/server.key 

An example of this is:

    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/myproject/public"
    ServerName mysite.local
    ServerAlias mysite.local
	SSLEngine on
	SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
	SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl.key/server.key 

Restart Xampp apache and everything should work fine.