I followed this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-14-04
I got to the part where the command is ./letsencrypt-auto and it returns this:
Failed authorization procedure. example.com (http-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response from http://example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/QPUDzybZszvcrjQ1a7ShzMHBbiq8pYCmbN1y8p_K5Dw [server_ip]: 404, www.example.com (http-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response from http://www.example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/VtyUCMvp2hX_80e-x84T-X8Be94xPiPiPsBxbj_pP04 [server_ip]: 404
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: example.com
Type: unauthorized
Detail: Invalid response from http://example.com/.well-known
/acme-challenge/QPUDzybZszvcrjQ1a7ShzMHBbiq8pYCmbN1y8p_K5Dw
[server_ip]: 404
Domain: www.example.com
Type: unauthorized
Detail: Invalid response from http://www.example.com/.well-
known/acme-challenge/VtyUCMvp2hX_80e-x84T-X8Be94xPiPiPsBxbj_pP04
[server_ip]: 404
The site redirects to https automatically using nginx config, and this error is returned whenever i run the renewal command.
The directory .well-known exists on the server, even in the browser it returns 404, which I don’t know why.
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I have the same problem here. mrparker, have you find the solution? Would you mind to share/update it here? Thanks.
Solve issue of the same exact error message and 404 as @mrparker had. What I did was:
- realized I was missing a
.well-knownfolder for some reason, so I added an empty one withmkdir .well-known - ran
sudo letsencrypt certonly -a webroot --webroot-path=/var/www/html -d example.com -d www.example.comand it renewed it properly and gave me the “congrats!” message - then I
sudo service nginx reloadand thensudo letsencrypt renew --force-renewand I no longer got the 404 error for the renew, then didsudo service nginx reloadagain
Hope this helps someone.
same here!! Failed authorization procedure. www.whatever.xyz (http-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response from http://www.whatever.xyz/.well-known/acme-challenge/KHgDiTKrSrPK4a9F6t_kqZB6S-jjjyAcIZQ66SFl14I:
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