XAMPP - CURL SSL Setup

Daniel Opitz

30 Mar 2017

To fix the SSL certificate error message “SSL certificate error: unable to get local issuer certificate” try this:

• Download: http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
• Copy the file cacert.pem into the directory: C:\xampp\php\extras\ssl\
• Open c:\xampp\php\php.ini with Notepad++
• Search for the [curl] section
• Add the following lines:

[curl]
; A default value for the CURLOPT_CAINFO option.
; This must be an absolute path.
curl.cainfo="C:\xampp\php\extras\ssl\cacert.pem"
openssl.cafile="C:\xampp\php\extras\ssl\cacert.pem"

• Restart apache