Trying to move a Wordpress site over to a new server, however the new server has a newer version of PHP so the version of Wordpress does not work. I have two options, I can either install an older version of PHP, or upgrade Wordpress before the move. I tried upgrading Wordpress from the UI, but I get Download failed.: cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate.
Normally, any public website with TLS would be verified via the CA bundle of your OS (found in the ca-certificates packages on all of our supported operating systems). Assuming that package is up to date, and you are running a supported operating system, you should never have a CA certificate problem connecting to a website that is properly configured.
I asked if you’re using a chroot for this user because if the CA bundle is not available inside the chroot, outgoing TLS connections won’t work. But, if you have not put this user in a chroot jail, you would be using the system CA bundle, and it would be as up to date as your OS ca-certificates bundle.
Thanks Joe. I just updated yum update ca-certificates however I still get the same issue - any idea what else it could be?
Perhaps it may be better/easier to just install PHP 7 on the new server (it’s currently with 8) - is it still easy enough/advised to install multiple version of PHP on Virtualmin or should I try to avoid that?
Which doesn’t seem like a useful thing. I don’t get a TLS certificate error, though. So, I see something that seems broken, but a completely different kind of brokenness than you see.
Maybe you want to try updating WordPress from the command line using wp-cli or in Virtualmin or even just manually downloading it? Even if it doesn’t work, it might give you a different shaped error and maybe we can suss out what’s going on.
I don’t think it shows the full ULR as it ends with an ellipsis (…)
Just checked and the WP version I have is 5.1.19. It’s an old blog which I installed manually many years ago and have simply moved it from server to server via the virtualmin backup/restore route. it did used to update itself automatically, so I wonder if it stopped when I moved to this server.
Can I use Virtualmin to upgrade it? If I go to Domain > Manage Web Apps, Wordpress is there but it only shows an install version. My DB is listed in Database for WordPress tables but I guess this will overwrite with a new/fresh install rather than upgrade? Or will it upgrade if it detects an existing WP DB?
Edit: Just tried via virtualmin and it said:
Failed to install web app : WordPress appears to be already installed in the selected directory
If it wasn’t installed with Virtualmin, you cannot upgrade it with Virtualmin (and you shouldn’t even try, that’s potentially dangerous, I’m glad it protected you from overwriting it).
You’ll need to do it manually or maybe wp-cli can do it. That’s really old, so I would expect trouble. I guess that explains why it’s trying to use a bogus URL to download. Paths have probably changed.
