Can't renew certificate

I'm stuggling to renew my certficate as well via certbot

ERROR:

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: apache). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: jmartinteam.com
Type: connection
Detail: Fetching http://jmartinteam.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/hiddenforsecurity: Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary Apache configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains point to this Apache server and that it is accessible from the internet.

Some challenges have failed.

Domain: jmartinteam.com
Apahce on Ubuntu 16 xerial
I can loggin via shell

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My domain is: jmartinteam.com

I ran this command: certbot --apache

It produced this output:

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: apache). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: jmartinteam.com
Type: connection
Detail: Fetching http://jmartinteam.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/hiddenforsecurity: Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary Apache configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains point to this Apache server and that it is accessible from the internet.

Some challenges have failed.

Web Server:
Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)

Web Server OS:
Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

My hosting provider: N/A

I can login to a root shell on my machine: Yes

I'm using a control panel to manage my site: No

The version of my client is: Cerbot 1.16.0

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Same error with and with out the following lines in vhost config

	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteRule ^\.well-known\/acme-challenge\/ - [L]
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Welcome to the Let's Encrypt Community :slightly_smiling_face:

Your port 80 appears to be closed. It could be being filtered by a firewall.

You can see the closed port 80 here:

https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

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Opening port 80 fixed it. Thanks!

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You're quite welcome! :blush:

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