Support » Plugin: Cloudflare » cURL returned an SSL related error

  • Hi, I installed the plugin and configured my DNS as per Cloudflare instructions but I am getting these errors:

    Unable to set development mode – cURL returned an SSL related error when contacting the CloudFlare API using HTTPS. It is possible that
    your server’s CA cert bundle is out of date. You should contact your server administrator or hosting provider and ask them to check that
    you have the latest CA Cert bundle installed. cURL Error: 60 – SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
    error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed – try logging into cloudflare.com to set development mode

    Unable to get current development mode status – cURL returned an SSL related error when contacting the CloudFlare API using HTTPS. It is
    possible that your server’s CA cert bundle is out of date. You should contact your server administrator or hosting provider and ask them
    to check that you have the latest CA Cert bundle installed. cURL Error: 60 – SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK.
    Details: error:14090086:SSL
    routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

    I have asked the hosting provider to check the certificates and they are ok until 2015.

    Also the developer mode buttons do not work and my site is not being served by CloudFlare after 3 days.

    Any pointers as to what the problem may be?

    Many thanks

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare/

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  • Plugin Author simon-says

    (@simon-says)

    This message is self described – it’s not related to your server’s own SSL certificate, it is related to the CA (Certificate Authority) bundle installed on your server.

    You should check with your hosting provider here – basically your server’s operating system does not have an up to date Certificate Authority bundle (CABundle). This means when WordPress attempts to connect to http://www.cloudflare.com over HTTPS to talk to the CloudFlare API, it cannot verify cloudflare.com’s certificate as valid and will fail.

    Mozilla provide an up to date bundle here which your hosts could install for you:

    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/security-group/certs/included/

    This doesn’t stop the plugin from restoring the proper visitor IP to WordPress, or from Comment Spam being reported to us, but it will stop you from toggling development mode on or off via the plugin.

    Thread Starter AnodisedBlue

    (@anodisedblue)

    Hi thanks Simon, you will have to forgive my ignorance as I am new to PHP and WordPress having been on the ASP/C# side for many years. I am also trying to work out how all this works on an IIS server,

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