Re: Beginner's Question: No pg_hba.conf entry for host...SSL Off

On 9/26/06, Jeanna Geier <jgeier@apt-cafm.com> wrote:
> Hi All-
>
> I am hoping for some help on this one...  we are in the process of
> implementing our program with SSL enabled on the Postgres side of things.  I
> can start and connect to the database from the command line ok using my
> current configuration:
>
>   C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql\bin>psql -d apt -U postgres
>   Welcome to psql 8.0.8, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
>   Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>        \h for help with SQL commands
>        \? for help with psql commands
>        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
>        \q to quit
>
>   SSL connection (cipher: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits: 256)
>
>   Warning: Console code page (437) differs from Windows code page (1252)
>          8-bit characters may not work correctly. See psql reference
>          page "Notes for Windows users" for details.
>
>   apt=#
>
> However, when I try to run our application to and connect to the database, I
> am receiving the following error: Connection rejected: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf
> entry for host "127.0.0.1", user "postgres", database "apt", SSL off.
>
> Here is my pg_hba.conf file:
>
>   # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
>   # IPv4 local connections:
>   #host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
>   # IPv6 local connections:
>   hostssl all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
>
> I'm assuming that I have to put some code in my program to enable this
> connection besides just putting it in the conf file...but where exactly
> would this go?  Below is an excerpt of our connection code:
>
> public class DatabaseConnection {
>     private static String DB_IP;
>
>     private static final String DB_PORT = "5432";
>     private static String DB_CATALOG = "apt";
>     private static final String DB_USER = "postgres";
>     private static final String DB_PASSWORD = "XXXX";
>
>     public static void initIPAddress(String address){
>         DB_IP = address;
>     }
>
>     public static void initCatalog(String catalog){
>         DB_CATALOG = catalog;
>     }
>
>     public static Connection initialize() throws SQLException
>     {
>         final Connection connection;
>         Properties prop = new Properties();
>         String url;
>
>         try{
>             Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
>
>             //url = "jdbc:postgresql://64.34.162.40:5432/apt";
>             url = "jdbc:postgresql://" + DB_IP + ":" + DB_PORT + "/" +
> DB_CATALOG;
>
>             //prop.setProperty("user","postgres");
>             //prop.setProperty("password", "XXXX");
>             prop.setProperty("user", DB_USER);
>             prop.setProperty("password", DB_PASSWORD);

Hi, Jeanna... I'm not a java programmer, but it looks like you could use

props.setProperty("ssl","true");

as seen in postgresql jdbc documentation:

http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/80/connect.html

Regards.