reinstalling 3.8 and having it fail

  • Resolved kkani

    (@kkani)


    12 years, 6 months ago

    The error I got was
    Download failed.: SSL: certificate subject name ‘*.wordpress.org’ does not match target host name ‘wordpress.org’

    Installation Failed
    I usually install by downloading the zip and putting the files through ftp. I got this error trying to reinstall through the dashboard.
    THe reason I want to do this is that I’ve stripped down my site to bare bones, use twentyfourteen as my theme and I’m still having a plugin problem. So I wanted to try a reinstall through dashboard as a remedy. According to NextGen, my page sourcecode is showing “noscrpt”. But this problem doesn’t happen on every page the plugin is used.
    So my question is, how do I correct the error above so I can do a full reinstall?

    kk

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Have you discussed this with your webhost?
    This issue may have to do with their server.

    Thread Starter kkani

    (@kkani)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Very good. Did it. THis is their reply:
    If interested, the fix is to change line 83 of class-http.php, from true to false

    ‘sslverify’ => false,

    WordPress changed the SSL cert if uses and this caused some versions of the SSL libraries which were more strict to not accept the new cert.

    I got the reinstall accomplished, but not the plugin problem. Onwards.
    Thanks.
    kk

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Very good. Did it. THis is their reply:
    If interested, the fix is to change line 83 of class-http.php, from true to false

    ‘sslverify’ => false,

    But remember that:
    – class-http.php, which located in the wp-includes directory, any modification to the core files will be overwritten by next update.

    – Also, make sure this modification does not pose any security risk.

    – Also, make sure this modification does not have any other side-effects.

    Thread Starter kkani

    (@kkani)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Ah, but you see, I did a reinstall immediately so all that was overwritten. THeir change enabled me to do the reinstall and that’s what I wanted. I’m kosher now.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Glad you got it sorted 🙂

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