Hello, I’m using WordPress on your free hosting. I’m getting this error when a plugin or cron job tries to use wp_remote_get():
cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
My website: https://arabicaclass.site
Can you please check if the CA certificates are installed correctly on the server? Or if it’s a limitation of the free hosting plan?
2 things here:
1 - Cron Jobs are disabled on infinity free as per this announcement:
As of today, the 9th August 2023, the Cron Jobs feature is disabled.
In collaboration with iFastNet, we have determined that a large number of cron jobs were running a very frequently on invalid URLs, or sites that were not actively being used. This resulted in a lot of server power being spent on cron jobs that didn’t work, or were running on sites that were not actively being used. This had gotten so bad that some cron jobs dramatically overloaded some servers causing performance degradation …
2 - sounds like it may be running fowl of the security system that makes sure only browsers can access your site… This may stop the remote_get from working properly:
InfinityFree is a website hosting service. That means that the hosting accounts we provided are intended for hosting websites. Websites contain pages that are accessed through web browsers. InfinityFree is not intended to be used for file sharing, API hosting, database hosting or background tasks/tools.
To help enforce this, free hosting enforces a security system that makes sure that anyone trying to access your website is using a normal web browser. This is done by checking whether the web br…
On the plus side, it does look like your SSL certificate is installed correctly:
Did you use a self signed certificate or one of the recommended proividers?
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May 8, 2025, 12:17pm
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Our servers should have a correct and up to date CA chain.
What URL are you trying to call with the wp_remote_get()
function in the first place? And does that URL have a valid SSL certificate?
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May 15, 2025, 12:18pm
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