Sidonius_

yep it worked, thanks! ^^

I can visit http://services.gradle.org/ but not the HTTPS I'm surprised I didn't have this issue with my VPN installed...

[Note to Admins] I get why the captcha is there, but the questions are a bit annoying. I have no clue who "Lex" is, or their full nick name. Also, a lot of the buttons aren't offset correctly. I have to sometimes click under them, just to click them. [/End Note to Admins] I have previously (2 days ago) set up Forge 1.8 on my Windows 8 x64bit computer and it worked fine, but I had to reinstall Windows because I got a new SSD for my OS boot drive. I loaded a backup of a fresh installation onto the SSD and afterwards installed JDK 7 x64, JDK 8 x64, and Java 8. I then set my Path for the System settings. The installers for the JDK setup files I used were the same that I had used on the previous installation of Windows 8. Minecraft runs fine. My Vanilla 1.6.4 Modding setup with Eclipse runs fine. (The setup I followed was MrCrayfish's tutorial for setting up and modding 1. But my new 1.8 Forge setup with Eclipse would not work correctly. When launched and directed to the 'eclipse' folder for the workspace, Eclipse did not bring up any of the files for the mod whatsoever. At this point I prompted to redownload the Forge installation as and Source Code files for setting up modding. After attempting to resetup everything, I found that the .bat files for setting up the Workstation and Eclipse was instantly closing. I checked the .bat files to make sure the codes match MrCrayfish's videos, and they did. I then put "gradlew setupDecompWorkspace" into the Command Prompt, and was issued with this error. M:\Forge Mods\Sids_Mods>gradlew setupDecompWorkspace Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.0-bin.zip Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: java.security.ce rt.CertificateException: No subject alternative DNS name matching services.gradl e.org found. at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source ) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect (Unknown Source) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(Unknown S ource) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown So urce) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(Unkn own Source) at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.downloadInternal(Download.java:56) at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.download(Download.java:42) at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:57) at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:44) at org.gradle.wrapper.ExclusiveFileAccessManager.access(ExclusiveFileAcc essManager.java:65) at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.createDist(Install.java:44) at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:126) at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:56) Caused by: java.security.cert.CertificateException: No subject alternative DNS n ame matching services.gradle.org found. at sun.security.util.HostnameChecker.matchDNS(Unknown Source) at sun.security.util.HostnameChecker.match(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkIdentity(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkIdentity(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(Unknown Source) at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(Unknown Sour ce) ... 21 more M:\Forge Mods\Sids_Mods> After this I kept trying to set it up, I eventually started getting this error, ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the location of your Java installation I attempted this fix, https://forums.techrocket.com/t/solved-java-home-variable-while-installing-forge/151 and I am still getting the long error above. Any help would be appreciated.