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issuing a SSL certificate on Heroku manually #232

Closed derekeder closed 2 years ago

derekeder commented 2 years ago

Documentation request

For most of our Heroku sites, we go with Automatic Certificate Management (ACM) for our SSL certifications, which enable HTTPS connections. However, for domains that already have an SSL certification for the entire domain like *.example.com, we have to setup the SSL certificate manually:

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Heroku provides documentation on how to create the necessary CSR file that SSL providers require: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/acquiring-an-ssl-certificate

We should update our documentation to cover the instructions for this case.