PHP - SSL certificate error: unable to get local issuer certificate

Question

I\'m running PHP Version 5.6.3 as part of XAMPP on Windows 7.

When I try to use the Mandrill API, I\'m getting the following error:

Uncaught e

Answer 1

I got the error like :

failed loading cafile stream: `C:\xamppPhp\apache\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt`

I am using windows machine. So I followed the below steps.

1. I have downloaded .pem file from " https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html "

2. Then I kept the downloaded file inside  "C:/xamppPhp/apache/bin/" folder and renamed the same downloaded file to "curl-ca-bundle.crt".

3. I restarted XAMPP and cleared the cache.
4. It's done.

Hope it may help someone