Point Heroku application to AWS RDS database

Question

I need to point my Heroku application to my AWS RDS database. My RDS database is up and running and has a security group with 0.0.0.0/0 access.

Currently, I\'ve rem

Answer 1

I did exactly the same that Andy G answer said.

However I ran into the following error:

no pg_hba.conf entry for host "XX.XX.XX.XX", user "username", database "dbname", SSL off

To fix this issue on Configure Heroku to refer to root certificate step 2:

Instead of adding ?sslrootcert=rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem&sslmode=require

add ?ssl=true&sslrootcert=rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem&sslmode=require