Certbot with Digicert and LE

I am trying to user certbot with both Digicert and LE. Do I really need to spin up a web server? I never got this before... I am also checking with Digicert, but though I would try here as well.

Here is their doc on how to renew: Certbot example: Renew, reissue, or duplicate certificate using ACME URL query parameters

My domain is:

I ran this command:
D:\jobs\webserver_ssl>certbot certonly --register-unsafely-without-email --eab-kid mydigicertkid --eab-hmac-key mydigicerthmac --server https://acme.digicert.com/v2/acme/directory/?orderId=123&action=renew -d www.domain1.com -d domain1.com --config-dir C:\certbot\accounts\acme.digicert.com
Saving debug log to C:\Certbot\log\letsencrypt.log

How would you like to authenticate with the ACME CA?


1: Spin up a temporary webserver (standalone)
2: Place files in webroot directory (webroot)


Select the appropriate number [1-2] then [enter] (press 'c' to cancel): c
authenticator could not be determined or is not installed
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile C:\Certbot\log\letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

D:\jobs\webserver_ssl>certbot certonly --register-unsafely-without-email --eab-kid mydigicertkid --eab-hmac-key mydigicerthmac --server https://acme.digicert.com/v2/acme/directory/?orderId=123&action=renew -d www.domain1.com -d domain1.com --config-dir C:\certbot\accounts\acme.digicert.com

It produced this output:

Saving debug log to C:\Certbot\log\letsencrypt.log

How would you like to authenticate with the ACME CA?


1: Spin up a temporary webserver (standalone)
2: Place files in webroot directory (webroot)


Select the appropriate number [1-2] then [enter] (press 'c' to cancel): c
authenticator could not be determined or is not installed
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile C:\Certbot\log\letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

My web server is (include version):

Windows Apache

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

Windows

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

self

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

Yes, running cmd prompt as admin

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
certbot 1.24.0

I see
C:\certbot\accounts\acme.digicert.com\v2\acme
C:\certbot\accounts\acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
C:\certbot\accounts\acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org

D:\jobs\Certbot\bin>certbot show_account
Saving debug log to C:\Certbot\log\letsencrypt.log
Account details for server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory:
Account URL: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/acct/myacctnumber
Email contact: myemail@company.com

Certbot will ask you to choose an authenticator or installer before it creates the order.

If your Digicert account grants you pre-authorization of your domains, you should be able to select standalone, but it won't start a server up unless Digicert's server actually asks you to fulfill a challenge.

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