WordPress could not establish a secure connection error

Try using this plugin to get more information:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/background-update-tester/

Thanks Samuel, here are the results.

Background Update Tester

Automatic background updates require a number of conditions to be met.

Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.ads-software.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to www.ads-software.com. Please contact your server administrator.) in /home/onlytib/public_html/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/update.php on line 117

PASS: Your WordPress install can communicate with www.ads-software.com securely.
PASS: No version control systems were detected.
PASS: Your installation of WordPress doesn’t require FTP credentials to perform updates.
PASS: All of your WordPress files are writable.

This site is able to apply these updates automatically. Cool!

If you experience any issues or need support, the volunteers in the www.ads-software.com support forums may be able to help.

All of the errors keep referring to the update.php. I reuploaded the update.php from the original download but that did not resolve the problem. Should I try and redownload WordPress and upload the update.php file from that to the server?

The error basically means that it tried to do the plugin update check using HTTPS, but that failed for some reason. It falls back to doing the same check via HTTP instead, but it throws that warning to let you know that the connection is not secure.

You might check to see if your PHP install has “curl” enabled on it.

I’m assuming a call to PureNRG Hosting could answer that?

I sent them an email support ticket last night.