Https - Enabling SSL with XAMPP. XAMPP: SSL Encrypt the Transmission of Passwords with https. This article is part of a series of articles about making XAMPP more secure.
See the overview page for all the security measures. If you don’t have encryption enabled on a password protected folder, the password will be sent in cleartext – meaning that it can be seen by anyone using a network sniffer. It is a good idea to encrypt the transmission of these passwords. There are 2 steps to this process, first we need to create SSL certificates, and then we need to make sure that the password protected pages are only accessed with encryption. Setup HTTPS in XAMPP - ADAM - Academic Data Management for Schools. From ADAM - Academic Data Management for Schools Notes: This page seems to be getting quite a few hits on this site.
Note that while it the instructions are written for ADAM's purposes, that they will give you a general outline for getting HTTPS to work over XAMPP.