Creating a local ssl certificate is easy. You can do so by creating a self signed certificate in IIS and assigning that to you local site. However you may notice that with newer TLS 1.2 standard, tools like TDS (Team Development for Sitecore) and others stop working and complain about local certificates with errors like Exception: System.Security.Authentication.AuthenticationException Message: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure. To fix this issue, these were the steps I followed. Hope this helps others that are facing similar issues. 1. Run the following Powershell command to create a local self signed cert (replace xxx.local.com with your local dns): New-SelfSignedCertificate -CertStoreLocation Cert:\LocalMachine\My -DnsName "xxx.local.com" -FriendlyName "xxx.local.com" -NotAfter (Get-Date).AddYears(10) 2. Win Key + search for "Manage computer certificates". Make sure your certificate is in the following 3