SSL error

Hi! I have the same problem. I have tried several things but not luck yet.

My system is old I know, but I can′t change it.

OS: Darwin
Server: Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.7l DAV/2 PHP/5.2.15

I really need help on this. I can’t install any update or plugin automatically, only manual.

WP HTTP Error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

looks like the plugin is not the issue but a server misconfiguration with SSL certificate (if you don’t run any or unaware of this, something is telling the server to run on https, but without a valid certificate)

you need to check that with your host

The issue showed up before upgrading from 4.0 to 4.2.x before that everything was ok and we neved had trouble with any SSL configuration.

Actually we do not use any certificate on the website. What else can it be ?

I had a update.php line 115 error after updating from 4.1 i think to 4.4 and this resolved my issue after i saw multiple ssl errors. and i am pretty sure i don’t have any ssl enabled for wordpress.

wp-includes/certificates/ca-bundle.crt renamed to old and used the one from the link here.

For me https://usability-weblog.de/wordpress-download-fehlgeschlagen-ssl-certificate-verify-failed works.
I translate:
folder in wp_content (“mu-plugins”) with one php-file. In this one there is

add_filter('https_ssl_verify', '__return_false');
add_filter('https_local_ssl_verify', '__return_false');

Hope it helps!

Thanks for posting Robert!

Please ignore. I should have posted my issue elsewhere

Thanks DrTomEagle,
I had the problem I couldn’t update my wordpress modules and now it works after using your solution:

Solution

This is because WordPress is using its own certificate bundle, overriding the global system certificate bundle. The problem is that the certificate bundle that WordPress has is old and needs to be updated. To do this, please download the latest one from https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem and save it as ca-bundle.crt

Upload this file to: wp-includes/certificates/ca-bundle.crt

Be blessed by Jesus!

It is not WordPress having an old bundle, it is WordPress using a new certificate bundle that has removed old rsa 1024 root or intermediate certificates from the chain. Older ( still in use) versions of OpenSSl cannot find or use the new certificates.
see https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wordpress-4-4-update-breaks-itself-with-ssl-certificate-problem-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate/