When updating to WordPress 4.0, I recently saw a scary-looking error when running the database upgrade on a network with some SSL sites. It triggered when trying to update tables for a site with an SSL certificate.
Warning! Problem updating https://blog.network.com/. Your server may not be able to connect to sites running on it. Error message: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
To be totally honest, I’m not exactly sure why this happens, but I was able to find a way to fix it by telling WordPress to ignore SSL checks when running the database upgrade. Create a file in wpcontent/mu-plugins/ and name it something like network-upgrade-ignore-ssl.php. Put the following in the file:
<?php
add_filter('https_ssl_verify', '__return_false');
add_filter('https_local_ssl_verify', '__return_false');
?>
That’s it! You should now be able to get through your upgrade smoothly.
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