By katherinegot
Hello,
When I run this command: sudo certbot --apache -d lazsoc.ca -d www.lazsoc.ca
I receive this error:
Failed authorization procedure. lazsoc.ca (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response from https://lazsoc.ca/.well-known/acme-challenge/dKGLJWuycibpj9oI5zkr7oOUXOMpV0cS9QIpNjThQIY [45.55.223.36]: "<html>\r\n<head><title>500 Internal Server Error</title></head>\r\n<body bgcolor=\"white\">\r\n<center><h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1", www.lazsoc.ca (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response from https://www.lazsoc.ca/.well-known/acme-challenge/MKBQljn70jXTDK-VO26lPDF9muXjPbnqtJi__lBYJB4 [45.55.223.36]: "<html>\r\n<head><title>500 Internal Server Error</title></head>\r\n<body bgcolor=\"white\">\r\n<center><h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1"
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: lazsoc.ca
Type: unauthorized
Detail: Invalid response from
https://lazsoc.ca/.well-known/acme-challenge/dKGLJWuycibpj9oI5zkr7oOUXOMpV0cS9QIpNjThQIY
[45.55.223.36]: "<html>\r\n<head><title>500 Internal Server
Error</title></head>\r\n<body bgcolor=\"white\">\r\n<center><h1>500
Internal Server Error</h1"
Domain: www.lazsoc.ca
Type: unauthorized
Detail: Invalid response from
https://www.lazsoc.ca/.well-known/acme-challenge/MKBQljn70jXTDK-VO26lPDF9muXjPbnqtJi__lBYJB4
[45.55.223.36]: "<html>\r\n<head><title>500 Internal Server
Error</title></head>\r\n<body bgcolor=\"white\">\r\n<center><h1>500
Internal Server Error</h1"
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.
I’ve scoured the internet for solutions but can’t seem to find any that work. I’m also a relative newbie and am having trouble understanding the system and the problems.
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Hello,
It looks like that your site was returning a 500 error and Let’s Encrypt was failing to validate your domain name.
What I could suggest in this case is to check your Apache error log for more information regarding the 500 error:
tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log
Once you sort out the error with the information from the logs, then you could try running certbot again.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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