Can not clone git repo to server

Question

I'm running the same command on 2 different servers. One works, the other doesn't.

I'm running git clone https://blah.com:8443/blah.git

On server A, it works fine. I get the objects, files, etc. no problems.

On server B, I get the following message.

git clone https://blah.com:8443/blah.git
Cloning into 'blah'...
error: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates while accessing https://blah.com:8443/blah.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
fatal: HTTP request failed

Does anyone know what this means or what I need to do to get this to work? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Answer 1

Here is a question covering trusting a self-signed certificate. This is the proper way to fix the issue assuming you are using a self-signed cert.

This question covers ignoring a certificate, however, depending on which method you use, this could result in ignoring all certificates, which would make communicating with your git server insecure, and is therefore a quick solution, but not a good solution. If you take this route, I would recommend at least using the per-repository setting (git config http.sslVerify false) instead of applying it more broadly in order to minimize the severe negative impact of this method.