My domain is: earnanswers.com I ran this command: sudo certbot -v --nginx -d earnanswers.com -d www.earnanswers.com It produced this output: Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx Requesting a certificate for earnanswers.c…

[image] Carrot: I ran this command: sudo certbot -v --nginx -d earnanswers.com -d www.earnanswers.com [image] Carrot: Detail: 2600:3c04::f03c:93ff:fe4e:b93b: Invalid response from http://www.earnanswers.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/NUPPolRYa9tmIrwaKYPpRD56xVCcymigvfOZGPliO5g: 404 Hav…

Hello @Carrot , welcome to the Let's Encrypt community. :slightly_smiling_face: [image] Carrot: Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary nginx configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure the listed domains point to this nginx server and that it is accessible from the inte…

sudo nano earnanswers.com server { # listen 80; # server_name earnanswers.com www.earnanswers.com; # Redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS # return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } server { listen 80; # listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot # listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot s…

[image] Carrot: listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name second.earnanswers.com www.second.earnanswers.com; Your port 80 server block for second subdomain listens properly for IPv4 and v6. But, your earnanswers and its www subdomain server block only listens IPv4. You need to add the IPv6 lis…

I was able to generate the certificates for earnanswers.com . Thank you! Now, when trying to generate the certificates for subdomain second, when executing this: sudo certbot -v --nginx -d second.earnanswers.com -d www.second.earnan swers.com The output: Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/l…

[image] Carrot: I go on linode to add a AAAA record for the second subdomain Yes, but you did not add an A and AAAA record for the www subdomain of that. Those are missing for www.second.earnanswers.com [image] Carrot: Do I need to wait 24h of so, for the changes to "propagate"? No. …

My A/AAAA Record earnanswers.com XXX.XX.XX.XXX Default earnanswers.com XXX:XXX::XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX Default mail XXX.XX.XX.XXX Default mail XXX:XXX::XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX Default second XXX:XXX::XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX Default second XXX.XX.XX.XXX Default www XXX.XX.XX.XXX Default www XXX:XXX::XXX…

New error because I made too many requests .... sudo certbot -v --nginx -d second.earnanswers.com -d www.second.earnanswers.com Output: Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx Requesting a certificate for second.earnanswers.c…

[image] Carrot: or do I add ? Different panels work differently. Sometimes they need the whole name and some just the extra parts before the base name. Some need a trailing period some do not. I don't remember how yours works. But, it looks like you figured it out as I see A and AAAA for …

[image] Carrot: Do I add www.second XXX.XX.XX.XXX www.second XXX:XXX::XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX Likely, these. [but test them out]

Cannot generate new certificates | Invalid response /.well-known/acme-challenge/XXX | Challenge failed for domain

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Cannot generate new certificates | Invalid response /.well-known/acme-challenge/XXX | Challenge failed for domain

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