Question
Error Acquiring Let's Encrypt Certificate
- Posted on March 20, 2022
- Building on DigitalOceanDigitalOceanDNSLet's Encrypt
Asked by udunanka
I ran this command: sudo certbot --nginx -d jesuschristmind.org -d www.jesuschristmind.org It produced this output: 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 jesuschristmind.com Waiting for verification… Challenge failed for domain jesuschristmind.com http-01 challenge for jesuschristmind.com Cleaning up challenges Some challenges have failed.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: jesuschristmind.com Type: unauthorized Detail: Invalid response from https://jesuschristmind.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/NuaFMRCV_PVElHT6Zp6vzMeTp1RT4NUb4d_ojT0mU7Y [2606:4700::6810:f34e]: 404
To fix these errors, please make sure that your domain name was entered correctly and the DNS A/AAAA record(s) for that domain contain(s) the right IP address. My web server is (include version): nginx The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): ubuntu My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Digital Ocean I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): Yes I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):Yes
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): Certbot
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Hi there,
There was recently a similar question asked here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/dns-error-when-renewing-lets-encrypt-certbot
This error usually indicates that the domain name that you are trying to get the certificate for does not point to the server that you are running the
certbotcommand on.To fix that, you need to either change the A record of the domain name to match the Droplet’s IP address or run the
certbotcommand on the server that your domain name is already pointing to.Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby