Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: apache). The Certificate Authority reported these problems

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My domain is:

I ran this command:

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

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

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

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: apache). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: e-learning.dynamicflow.my.id
Type: dns
Detail: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for e-learning.dynamicflow.my.id - check that a DNS record exists for this domain; DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up AAAA for e-learning.dynamicflow.my.id - check that a DNS record exists for this domain

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.
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.
ayyash@VMAyyash:/var/www/html$ sudo certbot --apache -d dynamicflow.my.id Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Requesting a certificate for dynamicflow.my.id

This looks like the same issue you reported at:

The problem is the same as you were told there--you don't have any DNS records for your hostname. You'll need to create them.

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