Laravel 5 Socialite - cURL error 77: error setting certificate verify locations

Question

I am using socialite in Laravel 5 to setup facebook login. I followed the instructions carefully until I got stuck with the following error

cURL error 60: SS         


        

Answer 1

1. Save this certificate (https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem) as cacert.pem.txt in C:\xampp\php

2. Add to php.ini:

   curl.cainfo = "C:\xampp\php\cacert.pem.txt"
   

3. Don't forget to restart XAMPP (it won't work until it restarts)

Then it works fine!