Enabling HTTPS

Configuring a certificate for your dokku app

Google OAuth requires that applications (other than those running on localhost) use https to encrypt the traffic that goes over the network.

Note that before you can enable https, you must first deploy your app at least once using http

If your app requires a database, you’ll have to configure at least that first, or the app won’t come up.
You will not be able to login to the app using OAuth.
To bring the app up, use the dokku git sync ... and dokku ps:rebuild ... steps first.

Once you’ve got at least a basic home page up using http, you can enable https.

The commands below show app-name as the name of your app; be sure to substitute in jpa03-cgaucho, for example.

On your assigned dokku machine, at the prompt, type these two commands, substituting in your UCSB email in place of cgaucho@ucsb.edu