Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to download the temporary challenge files created by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains serve their content from the provided --webroot-path/-w and that files created there can be downloaded from the internet.
No one here can of much help to you without your actual domain name at a bare minimum. You should have been presented a template to complete which explained that.
The IP in the error message indicates that you are using Cloudflare which can introduce issues if not correctly configured.
currrently, lets encrypt running on Windows OS and certify SSL management software running on Windows OS, and the path is C:\inetpub\wwwroot\
we have containzered the certbot, and running on the AWS ECS container. but, this is a Linux container.
please find an error below:
certbot certonly --webroot -w /etc/letsencrypt -d www.abidefurniture.net
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Requesting a certificate for www.abidefurniture.net
Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to download the temporary challenge files created by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains serve their content from the provided --webroot-ated there can be downloaded 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.
That introduces its' own set of complications [not directly related to this site].
Before you continue testing:
use the LE staging environment for all test [not production LE]
You should place a test text file in the expected challenge location and ensure it can be reached from the Internet before continuing to test the ACME client
Note: The expected challenge location would be: "webroot" + "/.well-known/acme-challenge/"
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Requesting a certificate for abidefurniture.net
Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: webroot). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: abidefurniture.net
Type: unauthorized
Detail: 34.73.74.95: Invalid response from http://abidefurniture.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/wyXE5ZKcEWF1dp0gNULvn59WQG0PCZOFkQOq7G_Cxk8: 404
Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to download the temporary challenge files created by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains serve their content from the provided --webroot-path/-w and that files created there can be downloaded 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.
Actually, the expected challenge location includes /acme-challenge/ [which you omitted]. http://example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/Test_File-1234
and as seen by the error message:
You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.
curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: test
root@ip-10-0-23-137:~/certs-data/.well-known/acme-challenge# certbot certonly --webroot -w /root/certs-data/ -d abidefurniture.net
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Requesting a certificate for abidefurniture.net
Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to download the temporary challenge files created by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains serve their content from the provided --webroot-path/-w and that files created there can be downloaded 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.
root@ip-10-0-23-137:~/certs-data/.well-known/acme-challenge#
That seems correct.
But I can't reach either of the "test" files:
curl -Ii http://abidefurniture.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/test
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Length: 1245
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:32:41 GMT
curl -Ii http://abidefurniture.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/index.html
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Length: 1245
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
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I'm thinking CF may be consuming the ACME challenge requests.
Please review the IIS web logs to see if any of those requests are being heard.
Another choice is to switch to DNS-01 authentication.
