cannot connect an SSL secured database to typeorm

Question

This is my first time using NestJS and I am having trouble connecting my Postgres database which is hosted on Digitalocean to NestJS.

I searched online for solutions and tried adding "ssl": "true" or "extra": { "ssl": "true" }

Heres my ormconfig.json

{
  "type": "postgres",
  "host": "host",
  "port": "port",
  "username": "username",
  "password": "password",
  "database": "database",
  "extra": {
    "ssl": "true"
  },
  "synchronize": "true",
  "logging": "true",
  "entities": ["src/**/*.entity.ts", "dist/**/*.entity.js"]
}

I expect it to connect to the server. The error I'm getting is [TypeOrmModule] Unable to connect to the database. error: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "", user "", database "", SSL off

Answer 1

If anyone has the same issue, I fixed it by adding a field for ssl and setting my ca certificate that I got from Digital Ocean. Heres what my ormconfig looks like:

module.exports = {
  name: 'default',
  type: 'postgres',
  host: 'host',
  port: port,
  username: 'username',
  password: 'password',
  database: 'database',
  synchronize: true,
  dropSchema: false,
  logging: true,
  ssl: {
    ca: process.env.SSL_CERT,
  },
  entities: ['src/**/*.entity.ts', 'dist/**/*.entity.js'],
};