Resolved Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl

[jorge ceballos]

Hi everybody,

Some days ago migrated from my old up to date EC2 instance to a new one due to be running out of space.
Used migration tool to do this which worked great.
The new instance is -supposedly - identical to the old one except by the HD size; it is up to date, have Atomic's ASL and WP toolkit.

Yesterday while updating one of my own sites and trying to install a new WP Plugin, came across a Warning sign stating "there's an unexpected mistake and there may be something wrong with wordpress.org or this server" - mine is in Spanish, so I don't really know how it shows in English.
Searched a bit further and in joomla sites, while trying to update other plugins it states "Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl".

Tried everything I could think of, including uninstalling ASL completely to no avail (although it always worked fine in the old instance) .

BTW Let's Encrypt works fine and new WP instances are created without a glitch but new plugins cannot be installed online - only through upload

My server:
SO ‪CentOS Linux 7.5.1804 (Core)‬
Producto Plesk Onyx Versión 17.8.11 Actualización #15

PHP 7.2.8

Some insights of the installed curl in the server:

curl --version | grep Protocols
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp

which curl
/bin/curl

Any idea?
Please advice

Edit:
Updated Curl:

#curl --version
curl 7.61.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.61.0 NSS/3.36 zlib/1.2.7 libpsl/0.7.0 (+libicu/50.1.2) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.31.1
Release-Date: 2018-07-11
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz HTTP2 UnixSockets HTTPS-proxy PSL Metalink

Still not connecting:

curl -vvv api.wordpress.org
* Rebuilt URL to: api.wordpress.org/
* Trying 66.155.40.202...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* connect to 66.155.40.202 port 80 failed: Connection timed out
* Failed to connect to api.wordpress.org port 80: Connection timed out
* Closing connection 0
curl: (7) Failed to connect to api.wordpress.org port 80: Connection timed out

 

[TomBoB]

Hi,

api.wordpress.org resolves to 198.143.164.251
Somehow your name resolution points to the wrong ip. Check your hosts file. Maybe your old system had it routed differently.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[jorge ceballos]

WOW ! Amazing, that solved it.
Thanks Tom !!

Added api.wordpress.org (with the right IP) to /etc/hosts and immediately resolved to the right site and wordpress' add plugins worked fine,
Cleaned /etc/hosts file and the server keeps resolving to the right address and everything is back to normal.
Weird but true.

Thanks again

Jorge

 

[Jan Bludau]

i have

mail:~# curl --version
curl 7.29.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.29.0 NSS/3.34 zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.28 libssh2/1.4.3
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp

Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl

if i start a planed task...

Plesk 17.8.30