My domain is: tentacom.net I ran this command: sudo certbot certonly --manual -d “*.tentacom.net” --agree-tos --no-bootstrap --manual-public-ip-logging-ok --preferred-challenges dns-01 --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory Using certbot 0.23.0.dev0 (from git, commit b6afba0d64…

Certbot wildcard certificate invalid for base domain

danb35 April 7, 2018, 12:35am 2

Yes, that's correct. *.tentacom.net does not include tentacom.net.

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