Authenicator Digital Ocean failing

Hi guys, thanks for reading.

I am getting the following error on Ubuntu 16 when trying to install LetsEncrypt:

“Client with the currently selected authenticator does not support any combination of challenges that will satisfy the CA.”

We have a lot of domains in this account already running SSL with no problems?

Stumped here!

You have provided no information which anyone can use in an attempt to help you.

We are equally stumped!

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My domain is:

I ran this command:

It produced this output:

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Hi Alento,

Thanks for getting back and I do apologise for the lack info.

If someone is looking at this, in fact the issue came up before and here is the answer:

By running this line we succeeded in installing LetsEncrypt:

sudo certbot --authenticator standalone --installer apache -d thedomain.com --pre-hook "systemctl stop apache2" --post-hook "systemctl start apache2"

replace "thedomain.com" as appropriate.

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