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I have an ssl certificate for a domain (let's say <a href="http://www.blap.com" rel="ugc">www.blap.com</a>) and I want to try to set it up on a tomcat instance on an local server for testing purposes. Can I trick tomcat and the browser into accepting the ssl certificate by adding <a href="http://www.blap.com" rel="ugc">www.blap.com</a>&nbsp;to the hosts file on the local server?
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I have an ssl certificate for a domain (let's say www.blap.com) and I want to try to set it up on a tomcat instance on an local server for testing purposes. Can I trick tomcat and the browser into accepting the ssl certificate by adding www.blap.com to the hosts file on the local server?

Question about setting up SSL certificate

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