<p>I am running MAMP locally on my laptop, and I like to test as much as I can locally. Unfortunately, since I work on e-commerce stuff (PHP), I normally force ssl in most of the checkout forms and it just fails on my laptop. Is there any easy configuration that I might be missing to allow "https" to run under MAMP? Please note, I know that I <strong>could</strong> configure Apache by hand, re-compile PHP, etc. but I'm just wondering if there's an easier way for a lazy programmer.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

There doesn't seem to be an easier way,
unless you're willing to buy MAMP Pro
.
As far as I know, the only way to use SSL with MAMP is to
configure mod_ssl for Apache
. mod_ssl is bundled with MAMP, and I found configuration to be pretty straightforward. Note that you'll probably have to start Apache from the command line to use it:
```
```
/Applications/MAMP/bin/apache2/bin$ ./apachectl stop
/Applications/MAMP/bin/apache2/bin$ sudo ./apachectl startssl
```
```