A little newbie General Guidance needed

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Hello @jwillard,

Maybe your web server is not serving extensionless files (like the ones that must be used to validate the http challenge).

You could try to test it yourself creating a couple of files inside your webroot paths and checking them with your browser:

Example if your webroot is c:\www\

C:\www\.well-known\acme-challenge\test
C:\www\.well-known\acme-challenge\test.txt

If you can reach the test.txt file using your browser but you can't reach the first one, create a web.config file at C:\www\.well-known\acme-challenge\web.config to allow extensionless files in IIS:

Note: Remember that path C:\www is just an example, you must use the ones used by your domains.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <configuration>
     <system.webServer>
         <staticContent>
             <mimeMap fileExtension=".*" mimeType="text/plain" />
         </staticContent>
     </system.webServer>
 </configuration>

Cheers,
sahsanu

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