cURL error 60 when Installing WordPress plugin

Question

I am getting a error when installing a WordPress plugin.

Download failed. cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate

I've tried to modify the php.ini file by adding a cacert.pem to

curl.cainfo = /path/cacert.pem

I'm running WordPress on an Ubuntu server with apache2 and PHP 7.0.

Answer 1

Finally got this to work! I had this issue for hours, because i was editing the wrong php.ini from other answers here on stackoverflow.

here's what i did

Download the certificate bundle.

Put it inside of C:\\wamp64\\bin\\php\\your php version\\extras\\ssl

Make sure the file mod_ssl.so is inside of C:\\wamp64\\bin\\apache\\apache(version)\\modules

Enable mod_ssl in httpd.conf inside of Apache directory C:\\wamp64\\bin\\apache\\apache2.4.27\\conf

Enable php_openssl.dll in php.ini . Be aware my problem was that I had two php.ini files and I need to do this in both of them. One is the one you get from your WAMP taskbar icon here.

and the other one is located in C:\\wamp64\\bin\\php\\php(Version)

find the location for both of the php.ini find the line where it says curl.cainfo = and give it a path like this

curl.cainfo = "C:\\wamp64\\bin\\php\\php(Version)\\extras\\ssl\\cacert.pem"

Now restart your server and you should be good to go