# Acme Challenge 404 with webroot

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-challenge-404-with-webroot/218630>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 18, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-challenge-404-with-webroot/218630 "2024-05-18T20:08:03Z")\
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**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:** [May 18, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-challenge-404-with-webroot/218630/2 "2024-05-18T20:19:45Z")

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Hello @NoahC, welcome to the Let's Encrypt community. 🙂

Do you have some geo blocking?

Please read these:

> [@Let's Encrypt is adding two new remote perspectives for domain validation](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encrypt-is-adding-two-new-remote-perspectives-for-domain-validation/214123):
>
> L…

> [@Multi-Perspective Validation & Geoblocking FAQ](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/multi-perspective-validation-geoblocking-faq/218158):
>
> (…

> [@Unexpected renewal failures since April 2024? Please read this!](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/unexpected-renewal-failures-during-april-2024-please-read-this/216830):
>
> A…

Edit:  
And using the online tool [Let's Debug](https://letsdebug.net/) yields these results  
[https://letsdebug.net/radio.youaremachines.com/1964683](https://letsdebug.net/radio.youaremachines.com/1964683)

```nohighlight
UnexpectedHttpResponse
WARNING
Sending an ACME HTTP validation request to radio.youaremachines.com results in unexpected HTTP response 403 Forbidden. This indicates that the webserver is misconfigured or misbehaving.
403 Forbidden

<html>
<head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>403 Forbidden</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>

Trace:
@0ms: Making a request to http://radio.youaremachines.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/letsdebug-test (using initial IP 45.55.196.154)
@0ms: Dialing 45.55.196.154
@195ms: Server response: HTTP 403 Forbidden

```

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