# 404 verifying acme challenge **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [April 15, 2023, 5:50am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/404-verifying-acme-challenge/196484 "2023-04-15T05:50:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@elric](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/elric)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2023, 5:50am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/404-verifying-acme-challenge/196484/1 "2023-04-15T05:50:49Z")
My domain is: [elricfd.com](http://elricfd.com) I ran this command: .acme.sh/acme.sh --issue -d [elricfd.com](http://elricfd.com) -w /home/elrixpfa/elricfd.com/ --force --debug --server letsencrypt --log It produced this output: **[Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] [elricfd.com](http://elricfd.com):Verify error:162.0.232.55: Invalid response from [https://elricfd.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/ROYxb5OIZ7fN6SqiLRC5U44DMZoTvea7LSVslWj6cPU:](https://elricfd.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/ROYxb5OIZ7fN6SqiLRC5U44DMZoTvea7LSVslWj6cPU:) 404** [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] Debug: get token url. [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] GET [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] url='[http://elricfd.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/ROYxb5OIZ7fN6SqiLRC5U44DMZoTvea7LSVslWj6cPU](http://elricfd.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/ROYxb5OIZ7fN6SqiLRC5U44DMZoTvea7LSVslWj6cPU)' [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] timeout=1 **[Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] \_CURL='curl --silent --dump-header /home/elrixpfa/.acme.sh/http.header -L -g --connect-timeout 1'** [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] Please refer to [libcurl - Error Codes](https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html) for error code: 60 [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] ret='60' [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] Debugging, skip removing: /home/elrixpfa/elricfd.com//.well-known/acme-challenge/ROYxb5OIZ7fN6SqiLRC5U44DMZoTvea7LSVslWj6cPU [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] pid [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] No need to restore nginx, skip. [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] \_clearupdns [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] dns\_entries [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] skip dns. [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] \_on\_issue\_err [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] Please check log file for more details: /home/elrixpfa/.acme.sh/acme.sh.log [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] url='[https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/chall-v3/219562365567/5sB1VA](https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/chall-v3/219562365567/5sB1VA)' [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] payload='{}' [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] POST [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] \_post\_url='[https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/chall-v3/219562365567/5sB1VA](https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/chall-v3/219562365567/5sB1VA)' [Sat Apr 15 01:36:32 EDT 2023] \_CURL='curl --silent --dump-header /home/elrixpfa/.acme.sh/http.header -L -g ' [Sat Apr 15 01:36:33 EDT 2023] \_ret='0' [Sat Apr 15 01:36:33 EDT 2023] code='400' [Sat Apr 15 01:36:33 EDT 2023] **socat doesn't exist**. [Sat Apr 15 01:36:33 EDT 2023] Diagnosis versions: openssl:openssl OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 **apache:** **apache doesn't exist.** **nginx:** **nginx doesn't exist.** **socat:** My web server is (include version): cPanel version 102.20 (build 32); PHP Ver 7.2.34, Apache 2.4.56 The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): CloudLinux My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Namecheap Shared Hosting I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): No I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): CPanel The version of my client is (e.g. output of `certbot --version` or `certbot-auto --version` if you're using Certbot): v3.0.6 ---
**Author:** ![rg305](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/rg305/32/91314_2.png) [@rg305](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/rg305)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2023, 6:01am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/404-verifying-acme-challenge/196484/2 "2023-04-15T06:01:46Z")
Hi @elric, and welcome to the LE community forum 🙂 > [@elric](#): > > `--force` Why are you using the `--force`? Please show: `.acme.sh/acme.sh --list` ---
**Author:** ![Bruce5051](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/bruce5051/32/76576_2.png) [@Bruce5051](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Bruce5051)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/404-verifying-acme-challenge/196484/3 "2023-04-15T19:47:33Z")
I believe your server is `LiteSpeed` and not > [@elric](#): > > Apache 2.4.56 ```nohighlight $ curl -Ii http://elricfd.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/sometestfile HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently keep-alive: timeout=5, max=100 date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 19:45:16 GMT server: LiteSpeed location: https://elricfd.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/sometestfile x-turbo-charged-by: LiteSpeed ``` ```nohighlight $ curl -k -Ii https://elricfd.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/sometestfile HTTP/2 404 date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 19:45:19 GMT server: LiteSpeed x-turbo-charged-by: LiteSpeed ``` ---
**Author:** ![Bruce5051](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/bruce5051/32/76576_2.png) [@Bruce5051](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Bruce5051)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/404-verifying-acme-challenge/196484/4 "2023-04-15T20:06:03Z")
Also the presently being served Certificate "Doesn't match Common Name or/and SANs" ```plaintext Common Name: *.web-hosting.com DNS:*.web-hosting.com SANs: DNS:web-hosting.com Total number of SANs: 2 ``` [https://decoder.link/sslchecker/elricfd.com/443](https://decoder.link/sslchecker/elricfd.com/443) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/404-verifying-acme-challenge/196484/5 "2023-05-15T20:07:04Z")
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