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Fix Drupal's "Failed to get available update data" error on Available updates

#drupal #update #security #troubleshooting

Summary

That short made me really troubled meanwhile😅

Environment

I have installed Drupal 8/9 on OpenBSD several times.

Drupal admin panel has the function to look up "Available updates" in "Report" pages.
I was in trouble because it always failed after those installations.

Failed

Fig.1 Failed

Solution

I found it was because of TLS connection failure, after struggling and being empowered by the official documentation:

To fix it, place cacert.pem under chroot's root and configure PHP aka php.ini.

First, get the certificate.

$ # /etc in `chroot` is `/var/www/etc` in actual $ cd /var/www/etc  $ doas mkdir ssl $ cd ssl  $ # get the cacert.pem $ doas ftp https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem $ doas chmod a-w cacert.pem
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It looks like:

$ pwd /var/www/etc/ssl $ ls -l total 448 -r--r--r-- 1 root daemon 206919 Apr 13 12:12 cacert.pem
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Then, edit php.ini.

$ doas nvim /etc/php-7.4.ini
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to add the line:

 [curl] ; A default value for the CURLOPT_CAINFO option. This is required to be an ; absolute path. ;curl.cainfo = + curl.cainfo = "/etc/ssl/cacert.pem"
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Finally, restart the PHP-FPM daemon.

$ doas rcctl restart php74_fpm
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Conclusion

Happily, my site got the update information🙂

Successful

Fig.2 Successful

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