How to use Heroku's SSL Endpoint with an SSL certificate purchased from GoDaddy

godaddy-heroku-ssl.md

How to use Heroku's SSL Endpoint with an SSL certificate purchased from GoDaddy.

Create a Private Key

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/csr

openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.orig.key 2048
openssl rsa -in server.orig.key -out server.key

Generate a Certificate Signing Request

openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

Request Certificate from GoDaddy

• Select Apache (2.0) as the web server when downloading
• Unpack download into same dir as keys above
• Combine root CA certificate

cat mydomain.com.crt gd_bundle.crt > final.crt

Add cert to heroku for use with ssl:endpoint

heroku certs:add final.crt server.key
# or if you're updating an existing 
heroku certs:update final.crt server.key

Thanks for this although I received an "Invalid Public Key Certificate" error from Heroku when I followed these steps. I followed the step for creating the PEM file here to create the bundle.pem file given in Heroku's docs here.

cat server.key server.crt gd_intermediate.crt > bundle.pem
heroku certs:add server.crt bundle.pem server.key

@agilous thanks for the update. Yeah, the heroku docs have gotten considerably better since I wrote this up last year. I should update this to reflect that.

Hello guys. I just got all this to work but realized the heroku docs may want to cite to include the bundle.pem file (the command @agilous ran above).

This is where I was looking (where it mentions "heroku certs:add server.crt server.key") https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ssl-endpoint

Thanks,

Anyone visiting after googling for this after #heartbleed - Heroku's article on this is finally pretty good. I suggest following their instructions here:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ssl-endpoint

Godaddy now has an nginx option as well. I'll update this gist to reflect all this after my sites are locked back down :)