# Cannot obtain a certificate

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-obtain-a-certificate/165155>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [November 10, 2021, 8:19am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-obtain-a-certificate/165155 "2021-11-10T08:19:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![anrho12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@anrho12](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/anrho12)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 8:19am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-obtain-a-certificate/165155/1 "2021-11-10T08:19:34Z")

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Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. [crt.sh | example.com](https://crt.sh/?q=example.com)), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is:

myburp.site

I ran this command:

sudo certbot certonly --standalone

It produced this output:

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: standalone). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:  
Domain: myburp.site  
Type: unauthorized  
Detail: Invalid response from [http://myburp.site/.well-known/acme-challenge/PVQ1Bsxq3BHjmwUMALUchSZ8kEStsBZ964GTHyrIrb4](http://myburp.site/.well-known/acme-challenge/PVQ1Bsxq3BHjmwUMALUchSZ8kEStsBZ964GTHyrIrb4) [34.102.136.180]: "\<!doctype html\>\<html lang="en"\>\<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"\>\<meta name="viewport" con"

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to download the challenge files from the temporary standalone webserver started by Certbot on port 80. Ensure that the listed domains point to this machine and that it can accept inbound connections from the internet.

Some challenges have failed.  
Ask for help or search for solutions at [https://community.letsencrypt.org](https://community.letsencrypt.org). See the logfile /opt/homebrew/etc/certbot/logs/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.  
lah@Lahs-MacBook-Air ~ %

My web server is (include version):

standalone

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):

masOS 11.6.1

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

> **[Make Your Own Way | GoDaddy](https://www.godaddy.com/)**
>
> All the help and tools you need to grow online: Websites, Domains, Digital and Social Marketing - plus GoDaddy Guides with you every step of the way

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know):

yes

I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):

no

The version of my client is (e.g. output of `certbot --version` or `certbot-auto --version` if you're using Certbot):

certbot 1.21.0

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**Author:** ![griffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/griffin/32/50204_2.png) [@griffin](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/griffin)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-obtain-a-certificate/165155/2 "2021-11-10T11:45:15Z")

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Welcome to the Let's Encrypt Community 🙂

Since `myburp.site` is currently parked with GoDaddy, it does not currently have a host server upon which to run a website. In order to use the `standalone` authenticator, you need to run certbot on the server that actually hosts the domain name, not your home laptop (unless that is the hosting server, but I highly doubt it). Even if you managed to acquire a certificate using the `manual` DNS authenticator, you would have nowhere to install it at present.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cannot-obtain-a-certificate/165155/4 "2021-12-14T18:50:09Z")

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