Setting up SSL Cert in development

[choccybutton]

I've just tried pulling the code down to have a root around and I'm struggling to get the unit tests working.

The tests point to idsrv.local, which is easy enough to set up in IIS and hosts file, but because it requires SSL the tests fail. Adding a self cert SSL certificate doesn't help (unless I'm doing something wrong) as the self cert points to the local machine name, not to a custom domain name such as idsrv.local.

You guys must have this working locally so I was wondering if you can advise how you go about setting your environment up so that the unit tests work.

[brockallen]

This is how I make certs:

makecert.exe -pe -r -a sha512 -n CN=idsrv.local -sr LocalMachine -ss My -sk y exchange -sk idsrv.local

Dom may have a different way.

[leastprivilege]

yep.

[brockallen]

Oh also, you'll have to grant IIS_IUSRS read access to the key from mmc/certificates.

[choccybutton]

Many thanks :)