I have two domains that I have both set up identically on NGINX server blocks. elnu.com has an installation of WordPress on it at the moment, and lakewoodlanguages.com has just a testing HTML page. When I originally ran the cerbot command, the challenge succeeded for lakewoodlanguages.com but for some reason failed for elnu.com. The certbot output here is when I ran the command a second time, and elnu.com still fails. The suggested troubleshooting in the output suggests that there may be an error in the DNS record. However, both are working fine so I don't think that's the case. I've looked around and I found a few threads with people who had similar problems, but none of them has a definitive fix. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
My domains are: elnu.com, lakewoodlanguages.com
I ran this command: sudo certbot --nginx -d elnu.com -d www.elnu.com -d lakewoodlanguages.com -d www.lakewoodlanguages.com
It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx
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You have an existing certificate that contains a portion of the domains you
requested (ref: /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/lakewoodlanguages.com.conf)
It contains these names: lakewoodlanguages.com, www.lakewoodlanguages.com
You requested these names for the new certificate: elnu.com, www.elnu.com,
lakewoodlanguages.com, www.lakewoodlanguages.com.
Do you want to expand and replace this existing certificate with the new
certificate?
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(E)xpand/(C)ancel: e
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for elnu.com
http-01 challenge for www.elnu.com
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain elnu.com
Challenge failed for domain www.elnu.com
http-01 challenge for elnu.com
http-01 challenge for www.elnu.com
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: elnu.com
Type: unauthorized
Detail: Invalid response from
http://elnu.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/NaTorwchCeRB6Xdzf3g9bP__XfD42Afn9KYC7zC5cXI
[2604:a880:2:d0::185e:d001]: "<html>\r\n<head><title>404 Not
Found</title></head>\r\n<body>\r\n<center><h1>404 Not
Found</h1></center>\r\n<hr><center>nginx/1.18.0 (Ub"
Domain: www.elnu.com
Type: unauthorized
Detail: During secondary validation: Invalid response from
http://www.elnu.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/RVWHN23E0CfQcF8IcwHyfms_Lv2Xd2FyzVbBqsktaSY
[2604:a880:2:d0::185e:d001]: "<html>\r\n<head><title>404 Not
Found</title></head>\r\n<body>\r\n<center><h1>404 Not
Found</h1></center>\r\n<hr><center>nginx/1.18.0 (Ub"
To fix these errors, please make sure that your domain name was
entered correctly and the DNS A/AAAA record(s) for that domain
contain(s) the right IP address.
My web server is (include version): nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: DigitalOcean
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 0.40.0