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I have a Godaddy SSL certificate that i want to use on localhost, however the certificate is issued to example.com and if i use that it definitely gives a certificate mismatch error. Is there any workaround to use it for localhost without having to go through the certificate error on any user? and the website is intranet based and would be accessed by other users using this https://<publicip>/appdesk or https://localhost/appdesk & i need it to bypass the certificate warning or error automatically not manually that the user has to click everytime through to allow website access.

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I did try by issuing the certificate on the hostname itself but it too displays the certificate mismatch error.There are lot of computers accessing the server though publicip and cannot add the hostname to host file in every computer. Is there any way i can issue certificate directly to sub-directories like appdesk to avoid the mismatch error, so that accessing https://localhost/appdesk or https://192.168.1.0/appdesk doesn't show any error.

Syed Zoheb
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You either:

  • Connect to the the fully qualified hostname used in the certificate
  • Don't use HTTPS for connections to localhost
  • Generate a self-signed certificate that is valid for localhost
HBruijn
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  • Thanks for the reply.I did generated a self-signed certificate for this, but when other computers in the network try to connect to this `localhost` website we are getting the certification mismatch error. Any resolution for this? – Syed Zoheb Apr 26 '16 at 06:46
  • @SyedZoheb what you are saying makes zero sense! If other connect to localhost, how do they get a mismatch error? localhost = localhost. It's by definition not a mismatch. – Daniel Apr 26 '16 at 07:45
  • @Daniel Please see the update in the question, while accessing from outside, we are using `https:///appdesk` and not `https://localhost/appdesk` this is where the error occurs and i am looking some resolution for it – Syed Zoheb Apr 26 '16 at 08:30