I just set up a WAMP server and am looking to migrate my DP7 site to DP8

Was getting the cURL error 60: on both when doing module installs through /admin/modules/install so i applied the only solution that anyone ever gives here... https://www.drupal.org/node/2654474

-> Download latest cacert.pem (As txt file) from http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html
-> Add curl.cainfo = [enter your path]\cacert.pem to your php.ini
-> Restart Apache service

Now updates and installs work on the DP7 site but not the DP8 site.

These sites are both in the same wamp64/www folder, using the same PHP, so why does the DP8 one fail? I really feel like there is another step that i just can't find in the forums or actually anywhere...

Any ideas?