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LetsEncrypt failed authorization process

I am trying to add another domain (www.curiotech.me) to my SSL certificate, which there are currently one, curiotech.me. I get the following error when running sudo certbot certonly --webroot --webroot-path=/var/www/html -d www.curiotech.me

Failed authorization procedure. www.curiotech.me (http-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response from http://www.curiotech.me/.well-known/acme-challenge/IB6wCaFDO8bqQt_tndM7__txPdZrahYEz-ifuLLrLQ0: "<html>
<head><title>404 Not Found</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>404 Not Found</h1></center>
<hr><center>"
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Flamber Hansen • May 15, 2017

@parion Then you need to post your Nginx server block, so we can see where it might go wrong, since you’re doing proxy_passthru to Node.js, but static files should be served by Nginx.

Flamber Hansen • May 15, 2017

Hi @parion

Is your website root located in /var/www/html for both curiotech.me and www.curiotech.me ?

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