How to redirect to HTTPS with .htaccess on Heroku Cedar stack

Question

I\'m new to cloud hosting...

I\'m working on a PHP web app that\'s hosted on Heroku as a \"Cedar\" app. Heroku offers \"piggy back\" SSL to all their subdomains, so

Answer 1

If heroku is not picking up your .htaccess file you might have to use a a custom application level Apache configuration as documented by heroku

Basically you'll need to add this to your profile: web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 -C apache_app.conf