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Good evening,
I have been watching the above mentioned course when I attempt to add the vagrant box. I am running Windows 7 64 Bit. Both Vagrant and Oracle VM Virtual Box appeared to installed ok.
I get the following error:
The box 'laravel/homestead' could not be found or
could not be accessed in the remote catalog. If this is a private
box on HashiCorp's Atlas, please verify you're logged in via
vagrant login. Also, please double-check the name. The expanded
URL and error message are shown below:
URL: ["https://atlas.hashicorp.com/laravel/homestead"] Error: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html
curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file using the --cacert option. If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might not match the domain name in the URL). If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use the -k (or --insecure) option.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to solve this issue.
Thanking you in advance for your help with this matter.
Warm regards Nigel
It's because cURL can't verify the SSL cert by grabbing the trusted certs from the providers. Normally to do with DNS or being blocked.
Ubuntu
sudo nano /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base
Add in this and remove any entries that have nameserver
# Google DNS
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
Then to update the /etc/resolv.conf file, run this
sudo resolvconf -u
You should be able to bypass SSL requirements with the --insecure switch: vagrant box add --insecure laravel/homestead
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