WGET issue on ubuntu in private network

Issue : — wget commend does not work on ubuntu system from certain private network for https URLs

Root Cause : — Sometimes the precompiled wget binaries refuse to work with your ssl linked libraries.

Error snapshots —

Solution : — The simple solution is to compile a new wget binary to be used with your ssl libraries.

wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/wget-1.8.2.tar.gz
tar xvzf wget-1.8.2.tar.gz
cd wget-1.8.2
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-ssl
make
make install

f you’re using FreeBSD, you’d need to use — prefix=/usr/local instead of /usr.

Pre-requisite — we need to have libssl installed, to install libssl -

sudo apt-get install libssl1.0-dev

Steps –

Step 1 — download wget gunzip file and unzip

Step 2 — Install “make” if not already there

Step 3 — Install “build-essential”

Step 4 — Install libssl1.0-dev –

Step 5 — Configure with SSL

Step 6 — make

Step 7 — Restart the machine and verify the wget works for https endpoint properly –