sparkpost laravel cURL error 60

Question

I have l5.2 and I followed this steps in hooking sparkpost and laravel and I reverted my services and mail.php to its original configuration:

https://medium.com/@petehouston/send-mail-with-sparkpost-in-laravel-b5e30a941ebf#.s2hebpwb6

But I get this error:

cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate (see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html )

Answer 1

This is a problem with your local cacert and usually occurs when using xampp, wamp or similar related software because when making default curl requests there is no certificate in place.

My suggestion would be to download a cacert from here: http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem

Copy the cert to C:\\Xampp\\certs

Update your PHP.ini file with:

curl.cainfo="C:/xampp/certs/ca-bundle.crt"
openssl.cafile="C:/xampp/certs/ca-bundle.crt"

Restart your web server and you should be good to go.