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I've been using this in beta for some of my personal projects that run on hobby dynos. This doesn't actually give you the certificates, it just allows you to up
by dtnewman 10y ago
I've been using this in beta for some of my personal projects that run on hobby dynos. This doesn't actually give you the certificates, it just allows you to upload the certificates you get elsewhere to heroku and then configures the server for your heroku app from there. I find it very helpful to be able to do this for free... for some of my hobby projects, it's cost prohibitive to spend more than a few dollars a month on SSL.
If you want to get the certificates for free as well, there's a guide at the link below that can help for setting this up with Let's Encrypt. The title is "LET'S ENCRYPT WITH A RAILS APP ON HEROKU", but I followed mostly the same steps for a Flask/Python app and it worked fine. The only step that was Rails specific was for setting up a route to the verification content, which is pretty easy to do in any framework that I can think of (to verify the website's ownership, Let's Encrypt makes you setup an endpoint at <your-site>/.well-known/acme-challenge/<verification-string-they-give-you> that simply returns a long random string they give you in the CLI). See: http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2016/01/12/lets-encrypt-with-a-rails-app-on-heroku/ http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2016/01/12/lets-encr...