{"id":798,"date":"2025-11-21T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.org\/share\/?p=798"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:49:56","slug":"wordpress-curl-error-60-ssl-certificate-problem-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wordpress-curl-error-60-ssl-certificate-problem-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress &#8220;cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was trying to do a &#8220;mirror&#8221; site for CLG-com to CLG-org.\u00a0 I uploaded the 2018 WP Version that I used when I first did my initial clean WP installation, and also the designing of the Simplified WP Theme.\u00a0 Then, after I fixed the CLG-org Menu &#8230; this came up as I tried to update:<\/p>\n<p>WordPress<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> &#8220;cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I did to fix it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1) I got the latest 2025 version of WP.\u00a0 Then I opened up my FTP.<\/p>\n<p>2) On the server side, I went to the folder \\wp-includes\\certificate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ll see a file name &#8220;ca-bundle.crt&#8221; &lt;&#8211; that old file is what&#8217;s causing the prompt \/ error to display and not allow you to update.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3) So replace it with the latest one, from the WP 2025 version (or whatever is the latest).<\/p>\n<p>4) Go to your computer folder, where you have &#8220;unzipped&#8221; the latest WP version at and look at the same folder path<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\\wp-includes\\certificate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5) Then upload that latest WP 2025 file called:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;ca-bundle.crt&#8221; &lt;&#8212; that would be the latest version.\u00a0 You can overwrite the older version file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6) Then go to your Back Office WP Dashboard, and so you should be able to click the &#8220;Update WP&#8221; and be able to.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps someone!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was trying to do a &#8220;mirror&#8221; site for CLG-com to CLG-org.\u00a0 I uploaded the 2018 WP Version that I used when I first did my initial clean WP installation, and also the designing of the Simplified WP Theme.\u00a0 Then, after I fixed the CLG-org Menu &#8230; this came up as I tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-ministry","category-sdlc","category-why-how-christianlifegroups-com-started"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}