Expedited SSL, a Heroku ‘add-on’, offers SSL on a sub-domain as well as on the primary domain. It would be nice to hand all the configuration / maintenance off to them. Our sub-domain is a Discourse.org instance hosted on Digital Ocean and maintained by the Discourse team. Since the Discourse te…

Since you’re using a Digital Ocean docker install, you’ll want to: Get a certificate+key pair Follow this guide: [image] Allow SSL / HTTPS for your Discourse Docker setup Self-Hosting This guide is likely out of date as there are now very few reasons not to …

Kane - Thanks; however, I’m trying to avoid that ‘learning curve.’ My Discourse instance was set-up and is maintained by your team (the $100 / month plan). I’m also using Cloudflare which now offers Universal SSL for free. I’m not sufficiently experienced to understand how the pieces fit togethe…

I am not following @DKH . Are you basically trying to cut the SSL cost here? You can proxy discourse but there are concerns and complex configurations you need to follow, I would not recommend it. If you insist see: [image] Full site CDN acceleration for Discourse Self-Hosti…

@sam , cost isn’t the issue. Complexity is. I’m a relatively new developer. Expedited SSL offers to handle everything after initial set-up, including sub-domains and SSL certificate rotation (as a Heroku ‘add-on’). You - Discourse.org - also offer SSL and so, too, does Cloudflare. I’m trying to…

If you want SSL, and are already hosted with us, best way forward is to purchase a cert and have us take care of it. We then take on dealing with all the annoying config issues.

@sam And let Expedited SSL handle the Heroku side of it, i.e., our primary domain?

I don’t understand why you would use Heroku for SSL this is very confusing Just use namecheap or something like that https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates/single-domain.aspx

@sam - Expedited SSL through Heroku as an add-on. We’re (eventually) going to be getting personal information on the primary website and taking payments. I’m risk-averse and want someone with experience managing this.

Having read through the article about Expedited SSL, this is most likely not what you want at all. The intention of the addon is to set up your Heroku-hosted application for SSL, it’s not a generic tool to build valid certificates. In fact, the article mentions that if the addon is removed, the SSL…

(a) That’s why I’m asking lots of questions. (b) I understand that, in general, each server needs its own certificate. It’s not clear (yet) if Expedited SSL covers sub-domains hosted elsewhere than Heroku. I have an open support ticket on Heroku. And, (c) based upon the replies ‘to date’, I expe…

SSL on Discourse / DO sub-domain of Heroku hosted domain

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riking (Kane York) March 15, 2015, 8:36pm 2

Since you’re using a Digital Ocean docker install, you’ll want to:

Get a certificate+key pair
Follow this guide:

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SSL on Discourse / DO sub-domain of Heroku hosted domain

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