Set up Heroku in Windows - windows

Question

I am new to Heroku. I followed the tutorials from Heroku website to set up Heroku in Windows. I installed the Heroku Toolbelt. When I run the command $ heroku login, and type in the email and password, I get the following error:
Owner#OWNER-PC ~
$ heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: qwe
Password (typing will be hidden):
! Heroku client internal error.
! Search for help at: https://help.heroku.com
! Or report a bug at: https://github.com/heroku/heroku/issues/new
Error: Unable to verify certificate, please set `Excon.defaults[:ssl_ca_path] = path_to_certs`, `Excon.defaults[:ssl_ca_file] = path_to_file`, or `Excon.defaults[:ssl_verify_peer] = false` (less secure). (Excon::Errors::SocketError)
Backtrace: C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/excon-0.22.1/lib/excon/ssl_socket.rb:55:in `connect'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/excon-0.22.1/lib/excon/ssl_socket.rb:55:in `initialize'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/excon-0.22.1/lib/excon/connection.rb:367:in `new'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/excon-0.22.1/lib/excon/connection.rb:367:in `socket'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/excon-0.22.1/lib/excon/connection.rb:105:in `request_call'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/excon-0.22.1/lib/excon/middlewares/mock.rb:42:in `request_call'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/excon-0.22.1/lib/excon/middlewares/instrumentor.rb:22:in `request_call'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/excon-0.22.1/lib/excon/middlewares/base.rb:15:in `request_call'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/excon-0.22.1/lib/excon/middlewares/base.rb:15:in `request_call'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/excon-0.22.1/lib/excon/connection.rb:246:in `request'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/heroku-api-0.3.11/lib/heroku/api.rb:76:in `request'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/vendor/gems/heroku-api-0.3.11/lib/heroku/api/login.rb:9:in `post_login'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/lib/heroku/auth.rb:80:in `api_key'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/lib/heroku/auth.rb:189:in `ask_for_credentials'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/lib/heroku/auth.rb:221:in `ask_for_and_save_credentials'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/lib/heroku/auth.rb:84:in `get_credentials'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/lib/heroku/auth.rb:41:in `login'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/lib/heroku/command/auth.rb:31:in `login'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/lib/heroku/command.rb:206:in `run'
C:/Users/Owner/.heroku/client/lib/heroku/cli.rb:28:in `start'
c:/Program Files (x86)/Heroku/bin/heroku:29:in `<main>'
Command: heroku login
Version: heroku/toolbelt/2.39.4 (i386-mingw32) ruby/1.9.3
It doesn't matter what email address I typed in, the error is still the same.
I've tried searching it for similar issues, but don't seem to find a solution to fix my problem. Please help me, thank you very much!!

Answer 1

Several other references to this issue:
Heroku client internal error. Unable to verify certificate
https://github.com/heroku/heroku/issues/245
Some solutions that others reported to have worked:
[sudo] gem install certified
add to gemfile : gem 'certified'
bundle install
try adding the /certs folder to your /lib directory from https://github.com/stevegraham/certified
Try setting HEROKU_SSL_VERIFY to disable $ HEROKU_SSL_VERIFY=disable heroku logs
Possibly try uninstalling the gem, and instead downloading/installing the toolbelt from https://toolbelt.heroku.com

Answer 2

I was having this same problem and none of the suggestions were working for me.
It turns out when trying to fix a different problem I had set an environment variable to set my SSL Certificate location to be in the RailsInstaller directory.
I recommend checking for any suspicious environment variables if none of the above answers are helping you.

Answer 3

I too had this problem. The following worked for me:
downloaded toobelt and re-installed it (even without uninstalling the previous installation)
ran heroku login to re-establish the login
Simple as it may sound, it solved my certificate problem :)