Strapi CMS, Heroku error: no pg_hba.conf entry for host - node.js

Question

Three months ago, I created an Strapi App that has deployed on Heroku, and everything works fine. I used macOS 10.13.6 and node 14.15.4 for the local environment
The configuration of database was created inside a file named database.js which located in rootApp/config/env/production/database.js
The following are everything config inside these file (database.js):
const parse = require('pg-connection-string').parse;
const config = parse(process.env.HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_MAROON_URL);
module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
defaultConnection: 'default',
connections: {
default: {
connector: 'bookshelf',
settings: {
client: 'postgres',
host: "ec2-35-169-184-61.compute-1.amazonaws.com",
port: 5432,
database: "d3d9tcukxxx",
username: "mwtwuvkwxxxx",
password: "42f0337xxxxx",
},
options: {
ssl:true,
},
},
},
});
But after 3 months (right now), I checked from heroku logs --tail then these app getting an error and the message was:
error error: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "3.86.36.125", user "mwtwuvkwtrqpir", database "d3d9tcukrk5fgh", SSL off
I used Strapi 3.2.5 , and I was deployed on Heroku Postgres with Plan free (Hobby).
I hope everyone helping me for this questions, and hope helping others for same case.
Thank you

Answer 1

We had the same issue on our Heroku instances and just recently found a fix.
Adding rejectUnauthorized to the database config appears to work.
config/database.js
module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
defaultConnection: 'default',
connections: {
default: {
connector: 'bookshelf',
settings: {
client: 'postgres',
host: env('DATABASE_HOST', 'localhost'),
port: env.int('DATABASE_PORT', 5432),
database: env('DATABASE_NAME', 'strapi'),
username: env('DATABASE_USERNAME', 'strapi'),
password: env('DATABASE_PASSWORD', 'strapi'),
schema: env('DATABASE_SCHEMA', 'public'), // Not Required
ssl: {
rejectUnauthorized: env.bool('DATABASE_SSL_SELF', false), // For self-signed certificates
},
},
options: {
ssl: env.bool('DATABASE_SSL', false),
},
},
},
});
I cannot take full credit however, it was this post on the Strapi forum that led me to the answer:
https://forum.strapi.io/t/error-no-pg-hba-conf-entry-for-host-ssl-off/3409
subsequently this link:
https://strapi.io/documentation/developer-docs/latest/setup-deployment-guides/configurations.html#database