WP HTTP Error: Problem with the SSL CA cert

  • Resolved Evan Herman

    (@eherman24)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    I have just transferred a site I was developing on another server to my live server. Everything seems to have transferred without much issue except for the sidebar feeds pulling form both Twitter and Facebook.

    On the one server things are working, but on this new (live) server I am receiving an error: “WP HTTP Error: Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)”.

    $url = 'https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=268253458684383&format=atom10';
$feed = fetch_feed( $url );

    (I’ve changed the facebook url around for client confidentiality etc. so it may not be correct at the moment)

    There was no SSL cert installed on the previous site, so I’m not sure why on this site the error is being thrown. I’ve looked into CURL being active (which it is). I’m not sure what else the issue may be, I can’t seem to find much info on this anywhere online.

    Staging site is hosted on Dreamhost, and the live site is hosted with Blackmesh. I’m just starting to believe it is a hosting problem.

    thanks

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  • If you restart apache (or nginx), this should fix the issue. If that fails, try restarting your server.

    It’s a temporary problem caused by an update pushed out by hosts in response to the shellshock vulnerability last week.

    Read more here: https://blog.getclef.com/fix-problem-ssl-ca-cert-path-access-rights-error/

    Thread Starter Evan Herman

    (@eherman24)

    Thanks for that response Jesse.

    I’ve noticed the issue popping up quite often for many of my plugin users. We require communication with the MailChimp API via CURL and this error kept popping up.

    I’ve instructed the few users who are facing this issue to reach out to their host and have them restart their servers.

    I appreciate the response and reference material!

    Have a great day,
    Evan

    No problem ??

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