I have a website for my podcast built with Python / Django that is hosted on Heroku: https://dinpodcast.herokuapp.com/
I have a custom domain parked on GoDaddy, dinpodcast.com, that has a www CNAME directing to my heroku application. This works just fine: https://www.dinpoddcast.com
I wanted dinpodcast.com to redirect to the www website, so I have the following domain forwarding set up on Godaddy:
This also works great, for the most part. Now, when I enter http://dinpodcast.com, or just dinpodcast.com, both will redirect to https://www.dinpodcast.com.
Here's the problem. When I enter the naked domain WITH HTTPS, so when I enter https://dinpodcast.com into a browser's address bar, I get the following response:
Here's what I THINK is happening. My SSL certificate is provided by Heroku under their Automated Certificate Management program. So, I assume that since I don't have an SSL certificate with GoDaddy, it's timing out trying to find one before it can redirect to my www subdomain. Would this be correct? If so, is there any way around this WITHOUT buying an SSL certificate with GoDaddy? If that's not what's happening, then what is and how do I fix it?
When you create an ssl certificate in your domain do you include your root domain? Tried using this tool in your root domain and it seems that there is no ssl certificate. However the subdomain https://dinpodcast.herokuapp.com/ has one. I suggest putting an ssl certificate in all subdomain and root domain that you are using.
I also checked the root domain’s IP address using this tool and checked port 443 using another tool and apparently the port is closed. Double check your firewall and make sure 443 is open.
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I am pretty new with the domain configuration part. I want to know that can I generate SSL only for my subdomain I didn't want to add the root domain with CLOUDFLARE because my root domain already has SSL certificate. Is it possible to do that? I have purchased my domain from the GODADDY. I will add the generated SSL certificate to IIS.
Please help me out !!
Edit: I don't want to add my root domain to CLOUDFLARE because if I will do it I have to change my NAMESERVER for the same and my root domain already has SSL.
I believe what you're looking for is the CNAME setup on Cloudflare. This is the alternative method of Name Server setup. However, this setup requires a Business plan. With CNAME setup, you can have just a certain subdomains to be used with Cloudflare. With proxy turned on the subdomain, you'd get the usual Universal SSL certification from Cloudflare.
I have a 1&1 IONOS domain for my heroku app. the www subdomain works fine, with a CNAME setup for it. but I'm trying to redirect the root url to the www subdomain. this also works fine for http, but if the url is typed in as https://example.com, I get a ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR (on chrome, other browsers have different errors). this is on any device, regardless of clearing cache and history etc.
my heroku logs show it's never reached, so it must be an issue within 1&1.
theres an ssl cert set on the domain with 1and1, as well as heroku's ACM.
any ideas?
To make the four URL variations (http://example.com, http://www.example.com, https://example.com, and https://www.example.com) point to a different SSL hosted site (heroku, cloudfront, etc), you need three things in IONOS:
Under DNS settings, add a CNAME entry for the www subdomain that points to your SSL hosted site (example.herokuapp.com)
Set up an HTTP Redirect under Domain Forwarding to https://www.example.com (don't check the box that states "Also set up for www subdomain")
Make sure you have an SSL wildcard certificate for *.example.com installed and attached to your domain in IONOS
It looks like all you are missing is number 3. After that, the redirect that you have setup should work as expected.
Note: example.com should be replaced by your actual domain in all of the above.
I've been struggling with the configuration of my DNS app on Heroku. Things I want to accomplish:
www.example.com and example.com , both with SSL config (HTTPS)
Things I tried so far ...
GoDaddy Settings:
CNAME | www | example.com.herokudns.com
FOWARDING to
https://www.example.com
However, this setup is working great with HTTP only, but I'm getting a "Your connection is not private" error when I type the https.
I checked several tutorials and none address this issue.
PS: I'm using the SSL automatically managed from heroku.
SOLVED IT
Getting the naked domain set up with Godaddy easily: Set forwarding to your domain: https://www.my-domain.com. This will redirect non www to the correct place.
With that, I don't actually need to add a second domain in heroku (example.com).
Just keep the www.example.com, turn the SSL on, go to go daddy and redirect. This is working for me so far....
Im using hostgator as my host.They do not provide free ssl certificate.So im using cloudflare free ssl certificate for my site.SSL certificate working everywhere except Cpanel.
I tried manually adding ssl through cpanel option.But not really working!Is there any way i can add it there?
Or it will be really good if my cpnael url cpanel.site.com won't just show up to that address.
If you want to use the CloudFlare SSL certificate then there is no need to add that SSL certificate to yoru cpanel nor to your site. Read the cloudflare documentation in order to see how to create and use Page Rules and their SSL certificate. cPanel has nothing to do with it. CF works just fine with cPanel/WHM and pretty much with any other related hosting panel. Your site can be http only in cPnel and then you do the HTTPS redirection from Clouflare using their Flexible SSL and page rules
cpanel.yourdomain.com ssl is related to server side. If your host allow autossl with Let's Encrypt (for example) then it will install ssl for all your necessary subdomains like webmail, cpanel, mail, www etc. If you are installing ssl manually, then you cannot install it for cpanel subdomain. However if you want to use cpanel securely and have enabled ssl with yourdomain.com the you can use it:
https://yourdomain.com:2083
Trying to get
https://example.com
To not refuse the connection, to show my website, and to redirect to:
https://www.example.com
Without having to switch my DNS hosting to DNSimple or adding another service provider.
My domain was purchased on GoDaddy. DNS is on GoDaddy as well, set up as shown below.
My app is hosted on Heroku, using a Let's Encrypt certificate, that I installed following this answer.
Currently using Helmet+express-enforces-ssl to force hsts.
I have read the following info:
Heroku SSL on root domain ; Heroku SSL Endpoints ; The Limitations of DNS A-Records
The last of which states:
(...) applications requiring SSL encryption should use the
ALIAS/ANAME configuration on the root domain. Subdomain redirection
will cause a browser error when the root domain is requested over SSL
(i.e. https://example.com).
Which seems to be my problem (?).
How do I set this up on GoDaddy?