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Our developer is creating a .Net API using Visual Studio and he is including that it requires SSL to access it. &nbsp;When he tries to test it he gets the following: &nbsp;Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority 'localhost:44312'<br />
Is it possible using server 2012 r2 to add a free SSL certificate in a test environment? &nbsp;We have SSL certificates for our production domains but this is a test environment on a local host. &nbsp;Thanks for your help
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Our developer is creating a .Net API using Visual Studio and he is including that it requires SSL to access it.  When he tries to test it he gets the following:  Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority 'localhost:44312'
Is it possible using server 2012 r2 to add a free SSL certificate in a test environment?  We have SSL certificates for our production domains but this is a test environment on a local host.  Thanks for your help

Is it possible to add a SSL certificate to a website in a test environment

HTTPS is a protocol for secure communication over a computer network which is widely used on the Internet. HTTPS consists of communication over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) within a connection encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS) or its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The main motivation for HTTPS is authentication of the visited website and to protect the privacy and integrity of the exchanged data. HTTPS is widely used for protecting page authenticity on all types of websites, securing accounts and keeping user communications, identity and web browsing private.