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  • September 2, 2016 at 11:40 am #1158650
    Lance C
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    Well, after several days of frustration, I have fixed the validation issue on my VPS Ubuntu server by installing cURL.

    Note: I am running Apache, but I have to imagine the steps below will apply to alternatives like Nginx…

    To do this, I telneted into my VPS and installed cURL by running the following commands:

    1. sudo apt-get install php5-curl

    2. then restarted Apache by running: sudo service apache2 restart

    3. Re-logged in to WP, applied the code and it worked!

    September 2, 2016 at 11:43 am #1158656
    Alexander
    Keymaster

    Thanks for sharing this Lance!

    September 2, 2016 at 12:00 pm #1158683
    Lance C
    Participant

    no problem, hope it can help others who may be facing the issue!

    September 2, 2016 at 12:06 pm #1158686
    Rahul
    Moderator

    Definitely! It’d really be very helpful for others as well.

    Thanks for the share!

    September 9, 2016 at 10:32 am #1168092
    petecodepilot
    Participant

    Thank you – fixed the issue for me

    September 9, 2016 at 12:01 pm #1168256
    Prasant Rai
    Moderator

    You are most welcome. 🙂

    October 1, 2016 at 1:43 pm #1198670
    georgewhoffman
    Participant

    Just to add my 2c. . . . This morning I set up a development server on a DigitalOcean “droplet.” The WP installation could not connect to validate. Investigated and found this post. A similar fix worked for me.

    I’m running PHP7, so the library is php7.0-curl and after a restart that did the trick.

    October 1, 2016 at 9:59 pm #1198986
    Rad
    Moderator

    Thanks for sharing! Yes, a restart is needed.

    October 29, 2016 at 12:40 pm #1236030
    Christopher Cain
    Participant

    This worked for me. Thank you so very much.

    I had to make a minor change, however, since my Ubuntu system does not have php5 installed.

    This worked for me:

    sudo apt-get install php-curl

    Followed by:

    sudo service apache2 reboot

    October 29, 2016 at 1:39 pm #1236069
    Nico
    Moderator

    Happy to hear that.

    Feel free to ask us again.

    Thanks also for sharing the solution. It would help a lot.

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