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Justin
Justin

Reputation: 4940

Heroku SSL sometimes works, sometimes doesn't work

I configured my Heroku app with SSL Endpoint from Heroku and bought the certificate from DNSimple. When I browse to my site, sometimes it shows up with the green https:// (on chrome) and other times (like when I click the home button for some reason) the https:// turns red and gets crossed out and the certificate goes back to Heroku's default one instead of the one I purchased. If then you click the lock (to see the SSL) it'll say Identity not verified. How come sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt??

A few things I have configured

my application.rb says

config.force_ssl = false

but in my production environment I set that to true

config.force_ssl = true

Looking on Firefox in the technical details i get a

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1071

Answers (1)

Simone Carletti
Simone Carletti

Reputation: 176472

Check your DNS configuration. I may be, for some reason, the domain is pointing to the Heroku standard app endpoint and not the Heroku SSL endpoint.

If this is happening randomically, make sure you don't have two DNS records associated to the same hostname. In fact, if you created two CNAME one pointing to the SSL endpoint and one to the standard endpoint, your request will be randomly routed to one of those hostnames.

Upvotes: 1

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