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How to solve "unauthorized" error with Certbot
- Posted January 21, 2022
- Let's EncryptDigitalOcean Droplets
My site was running correctly for a few months and when I tried to renew my SSL certificate through certbot I am getting this error. Droplet: Litespeed Domain from: Cloudflare Domain: fitnationplus.com
Error: https://imgur.com/a/MYoPhvh
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Hello,
In order for Let’s Encrypt to issue a valid SSL certificate, it needs to validate your domain name. For that to happen your domain needs to be pointing to the server IP address directly.
In your case, as you are using Cloudflare, the public A record for your domain name will not match the server IP but it would match Cloudflare’s IP address.
There are two solutions to this:
Flexible.Hope that this helps. Best, Bobby