Ruby on rails: force_ssl not redirecting from http to https when using thin start --ssl

Question

I have been trying to configure my rails project to use SSL (as application wide) with thin (by adding thin gem and placing config.force_ssl = true to applica

Answer 1

Your PC as (localhost) can self sign SSL certificate and your browser can accept it, but i think that browser will not automatically accept certificate with security on that layer. Maybe to try to add your localhost certificate to the browser ?

Answer 2

Here is the simplest solution.

https://makandracards.com/makandra/15903-using-thin-for-development-with-ssl

Answer 3

Use ngrok (https://ngrok.com/). It's free. Installation is easy.

Just start up your server, then in another terminal window run

ngrok http 3000

ngrok will give you an address that loops back to your dev machine - something like http://randomstringhere.ngrok.io

Put that in your browser and you'll see it redirect to https://randomstringhere.ngrok.io, still routing to your server on port 3000

Answer 4

You should install your own openssl signed certificate. You can find more information on this page

Answer 5

Verify config/environments/development.rb has the following line

config.force_ssl = true

Refer the post thin with ssl support and ruby debug and the responses(from nathan and shree) that has more information on this subject: