Recaptcha error - Unable to connect to Google to verify recaptcha

[StrykerX]

Good evening,

See screenshot for the error we're getting. Basically we recently moved to a new VPS, suddenly we're getting these errors which is baffling as there's no firewall running for testing purposes (AlmaLinux 9 box). We've changed the SSL certificates that PHP is using, changed code to try accessing via TLS, recompiled PHP, gone over every referenced file, to no avail.

Server: Apache 2.4
PHP: 8.2.19
SMF Forum: 2.1.4

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[vbgamer45]

Check your system clock on your server.
update your server certificates.
check cacert path in php

[StrykerX]

Check your system clock on your server.
update your server certificates.
check cacert path in php

Thanks for your reply.

System clock is fine: Operating in GMT + 11
Server certificates: Up to date
Cacert is empty in phpinfo

[StrykerX]

Anyone? 

[vbgamer45]

Try to curl or wget https://google.com and see what happens.

[StrykerX]

Try to curl or wget hxxp:google.com [nonactive] and see what happens.

Both work fine

[vbgamer45]

Who is your hosting provider?
saw this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5498497/error-with-fsockopen-and-ssl-failed-to-enable-crypto

[StrykerX]

Who is your hosting provider?
saw this hxxp:stackoverflow.com/questions/5498497/error-with-fsockopen-and-ssl-failed-to-enable-crypto [nonactive]

Yes I've seen this also. The server is a self managed VPS with the appropriate firewall permissions. Only thing I can think of is perhaps OpenSSL might need an update over the top of the normal version available via dnf.