mr86

Hi,
To anyone having similar issue, using paypal Shared web hosting account.
login to your host using SSH.
run command curl -i https://tlstest.paypal.com
Should return a 200 status if test passes.
mine returned Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to tlstest.paypal.com:443

Solution:
Godaddy’s Shared WebHosting only support version 5.3 & 5.4. PHP 5.6 or above is required for to resolve this error.
Godaddy upgraded my plan to Cpanel hosting which supports PHP 5.6 (still not 7 like most other hosts), but it seem to have resolved the issue.

Hope this helps someone.

Hi,
I’m receiving the same error on my wordpress backend.

WooCommerce Gateway PayPal Express Checkout requires OpenSSL >= 1.0.1 to be installed on your server

Woocommerce > System Stats shows
cURL version: 7.48.0, OpenSSL/1.0.1e

I’m hosting this on godaddy shared hosting account. and have purchased ssl from them.

On my test environment hosting on 1&1 i don’t have this issue.

Consequently, order placed through paypal are stuck at “Pending-payment”

Any help and guidance is greatly appreciated.