Unable to establish SSL connection, how do I fix my SSL cert?

Question

I\'m trying to wget to my own box, and it can\'t be an internal address in the wget (so says another developer).

When I wget, I get this:

Answer 1

There are a few possibilities:

1. Your workstation doesn't have the root CA cert used to sign your server's cert. How exactly you fix that depends on what OS you're running and what release, etc. (I suspect this is not related)
2. Your cert isn't installed properly. If your SSL cert requires an intermediate cert to be presented and you didn't set that up, you can get these warnings.
3. Are you sure you've enabled SSL on port 443?

For starters, to eliminate (3), what happens if you telnet to that port?

Assuming it's not (3), then depending on your needs you may be fine with ignoring these errors and just passing --no-certificate-check. You probably want to use a regular browser (which generally will bundle the root certs directly) and see if things are happy.

If you want to manually verify the cert, post more details from the openssl s_client output. Or use openssl x509 -text -in /path/to/cert to print it out to your terminal.