By bengaltiger
Hi I’m hitting this error from this command. Please let me know what is missing?
$ sudo certbot --nginx -d www.dev.testapp.com -d dev.testapp.com
[sudo] password for testapp:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for dev.testapp.com
http-01 challenge for www.dev.testapp.com
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
Failed authorization procedure. dev.testapp.com (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:caa :: CAA record for dev.testapp.com prevents issuance, www.dev.testapp.com (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:caa :: CAA record for www.dev.testapp.com prevents issuance
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: dev.testapp.com
Type: None
Detail: CAA record for dev.testapp.com prevents issuance
Domain: www.dev.testapp.com
Type: None
Detail: CAA record for www.dev.testapp.com prevents issuance
thanks
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Log file is showing this
snippet
"identifier": {
"type": "dns",
"value": "dev.testapp.com"
},
"status": "invalid",
"expires": "2019-11-27T03:05:23Z",
"challenges": [
{
"type": "http-01",
"status": "invalid",
"error": {
"type": "urn:ietf:params:acme:error:caa",
"detail": "CAA record for dev.testapp.com prevents issuance",
"status": 403
},
I had a typo in CAA record creation and that is I used letsencrypt.com instead of letsencrypt.org. Once I modified this I was able to run command successfully
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