My domain is: http://staff.csra-hs.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/index
I ran this command: sudo certbot --authenticator webroot --installer apache
It produced this output:
Domain: staff.csra-hs.com
Type: unauthorized
Detail: Invalid response from
http://staff.csra-hs.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/gDD5M-b8RyoywsR8-4IzuRq6QK2c2zbV99ZDOnsmfvE:
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To fix these errors, please make sure that your domain name was
entered correctly and the DNS A record(s) for that domain
contain(s) the right IP address.
My web server is (include version): Apache/2.4.25 (Debian)
The operating system my web server runs on is: Debian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch)
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Linode
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): yes
When I run that command, I get a 404 error, and I can’t seem to figure out why. When I go to the /.well-known/acme-challenge/index (A file I made to test) in chrome, the contents show up, no problem. I’ve checked to see if it actually is making a file during the validation process before it deletes it, and I can see it.
I’ve even tried to validate though zerossl, manually placing the file, and manually testing that I can see it, and yet it even fails validation on there.
More details:
- CSRA-HS.com is hosted using cPanel by GoDaddy
- Staff.CSRA-HS.com is forwarded using only an A record on godaddy
I’ve been googling and searching the internet, mainly this forum for 2 days, and I am pretty sure I did something dumb at some point, but can’t for the life of me figure out what. Any help would be appreciated.