Error connecting to authorize.net with php and curl

I am setting up a new billing system for a new venture of mine at http://www.cpanelreseller.com and I was having a bear of a time getting php to connect with curl to authorize.net.

After I setup a test php script to see what was happening, since I did not have any log files to give me a clue as to what was going on.

<?php
//Filename: curl_test.php

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Uncomment this for Windows.
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.geotrust.com/index.html);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

echo '<pre>';<br />
print_r(curl_getinfo($ch));
echo '</pre>';

echo 'Errors: ' . curl_errno($ch) . ' ' . curl_error($ch) . '<br><br>';

curl_close ($ch);

echo $result . 'EOF';
?>

I kept getting this error:

Errors: 60 error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none

So now I knew what the problem was, apache was not being allowed access to the ca-bundle.crt file.

To correct the error, I gave some read permissions to the directory with:

[server][root][~]# chmod 755 /usr/share/ssl/certs

This was happening on a CPanel Server, so your mileage may vary on another system, but hopefully, it will get you started down the right path.

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