by Ken Task.
@Paul
That error isn't really a moodle error nor a php error. Think it could be something in front of Moodle. Reasons for such an error could be many ...
Please see:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=280517
Have even seen, in other forums, solutions involving the change to code due to depreciated calls when MySQLserver had been upgraded to 5.7.x.
Turn on debugging.
Check your apache error logs ... ssl error log.
@original poster in this thread ... did you turn on debug? did you check apache error logs?
'spirit of sharing', Ken