How to deactivate/remove https on localhost project from online

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I’m working on a messy customer project.
To debug it, I would like to work on it on localhost.
I’m using Wampserver.

This is what I did :

1 – I made a virtualhost

httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName devfoo.pro
    DocumentRoot "c:/path/to/project/src/www"
    <Directory  "c:/path/to/project/src/www/">
        Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require local
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

2 – I renamed the file .htaccess to _.htaccess

At that point when I run the page, there is still a redirection from http://devfoo.pro to https://devfoo.pro.

Notice : If I rename the plugin really-simple-ssl to _really-simple-ssl, the page redirect to the online website.

So… how can I import a WordPress project on localhost and deactivate the https protocol properly ? (Keeping the https on localhost is so messy! I never manage to simulate https on a local server with or without documentation, tutorials etc… )

2 Answers
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I also had this experience with chrome and firefox, they switch http to https and did not find a way to overcome it, so i used internet explorer in that windows machine.
I don’t think you can have ssl on localhost or an ip address, i guess you know it as you used devfoo.pro. SSL certificate could be generated only for fully qualified domain names.

So, you will need to buy a certificate to have things working, out of the box. Easy and “secure”.
Or you can self sign one for your self, following a tutorial :-). Might be difficult and you will need to accept it in your browser or os.
Or better (at least for me), use this website. It will self sign a certificate for a provided domain.

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