Curl hangs my apache server when doing POST to https

I have this very weird issue with curl, when I do a post request to my ubuntu apache server the apache server hangs, if I debug my php code I can see that ``` $fp = curl_exec($ch); ``` Never returns. I think the actual post request is correct because I can successfully do the same POST request with postman. Below are my curl options : ``` $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER , 0); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $this->url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,true); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,$testHeader); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post_data); $fp = curl_exec($ch); ``` One weird thing is that if im quick, and reload my apache server ``` sudo service apache reload ``` while its in this hanged state the curl_exec immediately returns and I get my data. Im not a real web developer and more of a windows guy so any help would be greatly appreciated. :) UPDATE I can see no error reporting from Curl since the process hangs. It never comes to the point where it can give me the error. When I reload the apache server the request returns and then there are no errors reported. I added the CURLOPT_VERBOSE option. UPDATE 2: OK I can also run the post from curl commandline both from the host and the client. Worth mentioning is that my host is a virtual machine. Beginning to think its more of a network thing.