SSL certificate verification on PHP 5.6
I recently updated my local OS X Zend Server installation to PHP 5.6 and when I ran composer self-update, I got this error message: [Composer\Downloader\TransportException] The "https://getcomposer.org/version" file could not be downloaded: SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed Failed to enable crypto failed to open stream: operation failed Googling around, I finally worked out that there have been various SSL improvements in PHP 5.6 and that the problem… continue reading.