Deploying the App Center solution inside of your IT environment will require you to use an SSL certificate to secure communication between the client and the server. When dealing with a test or Proof Of Concept (POC) environment, it may be too costly or time-consuming to go out and procure an SSL certificate from Symantec or other CA. This article contains a couple python scripts to help generate the SSL certificate, keys and a mobile provisioning profile (for the iOS device to trust the self-signed CA).
It's a fairly straight-forward process to generate the certificate, it is suggested to run this before running the installer for App Center as it will use the same port (8000) as the configurator.
How to Run:
There is also an option to get a trial certificate from Symantec, which would be the more recommended route if it will be a temporary test environment.
http://www.symantec.com/verisign/ssl-certificates