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Self-Signed SSL Certificate
Self-Signed SSL Certificate

Learn how to generate a self-signed SSL certificate to install add-ons from the App Store

Olga Tereshina avatar
Written by Olga Tereshina
Updated over 2 years ago

OpenSSL uses an SSL certificate to encrypt data passed via cURL. If you test X-Cart on a local machine and your web server does not have an SSL certificate, your store will not connect to the X-Cart App Store. If this is your case, you need to generate a self-signed SSL certificate to install add-ons. How you can do it will depend on what type of server you are using.

Creating a Self-signed SSL Certificate

Windows + XAMPP

  1. Download latest cacert.pem file from cURL’s website http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html

  2. Save it as you wish, for instance, C:\Windows\ca-bundle.crt. But, yes, you need to change its extension from .pem to .crt.

  3. Add the following line to your xampp\php\php.ini file under the [PHP] header

    curl.cainfo = c:\windows\ca-bundle.crt

  4. Restart Apache and this certificate file should be picked up properly.

Windows + WAMP

The same instruction as above, except you need to edit the wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin\php.ini file instead of xampp\php\php.ini one.

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