PHP Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)

Question

I get this error:

"Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)"

When doing:

$curl = curl_init('https://example.com' . ($method == 'GET' && $params ? '?' . $params : ''));  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);  $response = curl_exec($curl);  print curl_error($curl) 

Works ok on another server.

The SSL is using NSS. PHP 5.3.6

Answer 1

If you are getting "Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)" it may very well mean that you have either deleted everything from /etc/pki/tls/certs/ or have set invalid permissions (CHMOD).

If you are using RHEL/CentOS, try yum reinstall openssl ca-certificates -y

Answer 2

Had this happen to two servers which use the PayPal IPN, both at around the same time.

Fix was to restart Apache.