Awesome Flickr Gallery Error – SSL is required

Same problem here. What to do?

Also getting this error. I guess because Flick has switched to https instead of http. AFG was supposed to have been updated to cope with the change. My web hosting provider enabled curl ca root cert in PHP, and suggested the developer set “CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER” to true in coding and put “CURLOPT_CAINFO” path as per the output from above URL.

Not sure how to fully do this. Anyone?

Update:
I got AFG working again by uninstalling v3.3.6 and rolling back to v3.3.5 which appears to work fine. You lose the option for the Highslide Gallery which was in 3.3.6, but ColourBox is more or less the same. Maybe Ronan updated 3.3.5 as the stable release to cope with the anticipated new https change on Flickr but didn’t update the lesser-known 3.3.6 release.

I assume that you will still need your hosting provider to enable curl ca root certificate in PHP.

Hope that helps others.

That was expected. There is a version of AFG 4.0 somewhere that I need to find and update… I was using 3.3.6 updated by Susana and of course I’m having the same SSL problem. I am very surprised 3.3.5 works!

OK – I fixed this while keep 3.3.6-sj

Go here:
https://github.com/ronakg/awesome-flickr-gallery-plugin/blob/master/afgFlickr/afgFlickr.php

Copy everything in a new file called afgFlickr.php
Replace (after backing up) afgFlickr.php on your version of 3.3.6 located here:
/wp-content/plugins/awesome-flickr-gallery-plugin/afgFlickr

This worked for me. Not sure this is a 100% fix as if you go here:
https://github.com/ronakg/awesome-flickr-gallery-plugin

You will find half a dozen files that relate to the new SSL changes. Those using a plain version of AFG might be tempted to update all their files with these new version.

Ronan’s got a new version out 3.5.0. This didn’t appear on my WordPress dashboard. You can manually download and update AFG 3.5.0 from here – https://github.com/ronakg/awesome-flickr-gallery-plugin/archive/3.5.0.zip

Here’s the link to the thread on the SSL issue:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/will-afg-work-when-flickr-changes-to-https?replies=4#post-5737976

Latest version of Awesome Flickr Gallery is 3.5.0. This is served from my own server and not from www.ads-software.com. That’s why latest version on www.ads-software.com shows up as 3.3.5.

However, you should see an update notification to 3.5.0 from my server and it should update just fine.

It is giving an error message after auto-upgrade to 3.5.0:
Awesome Flickr Gallery Error - SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

Make sure the root CA certificate is properly installed on your host. Contact your hosting provider to find out how to do that.

Hi,

The update is not showing directly on my WordPress dashboard so I’m trying to update it manually. But which files should I keep in order not to lose my configuration and galleries already created?

Thanks,

Update it manually. Since your galleries are hosted on Flickr your images won’t be affected. If you did any tweaks yourself in the code you will have to do them again. Otherwise the configuration is from the AFG control panel as before. You will also have to make sure your web hosting provider has updated the CA certificate otherwise you will get an SSL message (as above).

So just to clarify, v3.3.6 is “broken” now, v3.3.5 on WordPress isn’t the right one either and we need v3.5 that isn’t on WordPress and we get it somewhere else?

Is that right? Just double checking as I have more that one site using the plugin and want the quickest way to fix the issue.

Thanks, it worked for me! So as you said I just manually updated the files (replacing the old ones in the plugin folder on my FTP) and my mosaics are now back on my blog. Thanks all for your help.

Download version 3.5.0 from the following link. You can safely uninstall existing AFG version and manually install this version.

https://github.com/ronakg/awesome-flickr-gallery-plugin/releases