Can't access site with www, but works without www

Posted on April 24, 2020

I just noticed that certbot had failed its renewal, and when running certbot manually I was able to renew certificate on 1: mydomain.com, but when trying to renew 2: www.mydomain.com I get the error:

Failed authorization procedure. www.mydomain.com (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response from http://www.mydomain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/Yz4RezbUvNFiGMoUi__MV5-XpmQ3tD2DwSeO4cpxWrw [2607:f8b0:400f:800::2013]: "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang=en>\n  <meta charset=utf-8>\n  <meta name=viewport content=\"initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=dev"

When opening www.mydomain.com in the browser I get a 404 error from google:

404. That’s an error.

The requested URL /login was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

But, mydomain.com works fine (without www). I apparently have no idea what I’m doing.

I’m running the ubuntu droplet with apache. Any thoughts?

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