CentOS Root Certificate Authority Failures

Oh CentOS why you so annoying! I love you and hate you all at the same time!

When trying to add the shiny GitHub RSS feed on the right of the page I came up with CS errors that WordPress could not validate the SSL CA. This happens because CentOS had an old certificate authority bundle: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

I found a blog post from last year here and made sense for my position!

Backup your existing file just so you don’t kill any kittens:

cp /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt /root/kitten-basket

Then use magic to get the new one, I used the one found in the other blog post referenced above.

curl http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem -o /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

I restarted apache (not sure if I needed to but made sense!) and yippee it works!

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