Heroku SSL error: key doesn't match PEM certificate

Question

I am trying to generate a self-signed certificate using the instructions that Heroku suggests here: http://www.akadia.com/services/ssh_test_certificate.html

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Answer 1

Just in case others are getting this error - I was getting the same error setting up a test hostname SSL certificate for my app.

The answer was that I had not added the domain name the certificate was for first - it does not explicity say this in the Heroku SSL docs. So before adding the cert do:

heroku domains:add secure.mydomain.com

and then you can add the certificate:

heroku ssl:add ssl.crt ssl.key