Error: cURL error 35: SSL connect error [500]

Hello @martein

I hope you’re doing well!

Would you please contact your hosting provider and make sure that the cURL package version is higher than curl-7.19.7-43.el6? If not please ask them to upgrade the cURL package version.

Kind regards,
Nastia

[root@serv ~]# curl -V
curl 7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.44 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap ldaps http file https ftps scp sftp
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

Hello there @martein

Is there an active SSL certificate installed for your domain?

Also, which SSL mode are you using in Cloudflare?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin/ssl-modes/

Thank you,
Dimitris

My site is configured for encryption with active RapidSSL certificate.
SSL mode for CF – Full (Encrypts end-to-end, using a self signed certificate on the server)

But now another Error message:
“[object Object] “

Hello @martein

I trust you’re doing well!

This message doesn’t look like an error. Please locate the server’s error.log file after trying to connect to Cloudflare and see if there any related errors recorded.

On a Cloudflare end can you please try switching to Strick SSL mode? Let us know if this will work.

Also please share with us a link to your site so we could check the SSL certificate.

Kind regards,
Nastia

I enabled – Strict SSL mode.
But still error “Error: cURL error 35: SSL connect error [500] “.
Сan I send the domain name privately?

Hello @martein

I trust you’re doing well!

Is there caching enabled on your server? If yes, please flush it and clear site’s cache too. Try to connect one more time.

Before this, please enable debug mode, add these lines to the wp-config.php file:

/** Debug **/
define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false ); 

After replicating the issue again, and see if there is any errors in the /wp-content/debug.log file.

Is the same issue happening when only Hummingbird is enabled, which all other plugins are deactivated?

Please share here a link to your site so we could check the SSL certificate.

Please advise,

Kind regards,
Nastia

Hello there @martein

I hope you are doing well!

We haven’t heard back from you for a while now so we’ve marked this ticket as resolved. If you do have any followup questions or require further assistance feel free to reopen it and let us know here.

Kind regards,
Nastia