Problem setting up heroku account: "WARNING: Unable to verify SSL certificate for api.heroku.com"

I'm trying to deploy an app onto heroku, just to test out the process. My app is on github (at https://github.com/toastkid/fooapp) and all my github ssh stuff is set up. I'm following the tutorial here:

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quickstart

I'm at step 3, where i say "heroku create" and enter my heroku email and pa开发者_如何转开发ssword. I do this, and i just get this back:

WARNING: Unable to verify SSL certificate for api.heroku.com
To disable SSL verification, run with HEROKU_SSL_VERIFY=disable

Before i try running it with that disabled ssl option i'd like to get it working normally. Anyone know what the problem might be?

thanks, max

I've just added HEROKU_SSL_VERIFY=disable to my .bashrc. Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix this in other way. This thing started to appear in my console since I've updated heroku gem to 2.0.5…

It happens because you may not have a trusty certificate installed in your machine, or maybe, you are in a corporate network with a firewall that filter packages. When the firewall open a secure package, it may attach a self-signed certificate. If this self-signed certificate is not proper installed in your machine, you can get the error. You can verify if you get the same error with another application like Git or Pypi.

If you are in a corporate network, HEROKU_SSL_VERIFY=disable is the best solution because you know that you are in a secure environment; otherwise, you should verify the trusty certificates installed in your machine.

Merely to complement:

The same solution happens to Git with the GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true

In Pypi you can use the --trusted-host parameter.