Certificate does not match, acme-challenge cannot be accessed

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My domain is: lawandotherthings.com

I ran this command: $ ./getssl $domain

It produced this output: www.lawandotherthings.com: Certificate on remote domain does not match, ignoring remote certificate
Registering account
Verify each domain
Verifying www.lawandotherthings.com
copying challenge token to /home/lawand12/.well-known/acme-challenge/40sAMCpyg0F5PAxyAZbn3j-jk3YWZnhyv3xaLT4Gm9I
getssl: for some reason could not reach http://www.lawandotherthings.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/40sAMCpyg0F5PAxyAZbn3j-jk3YWZnhyv3xaLT4Gm9I - please check it manually

My web server is (include version): Apache Version 2.4.29

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): GNU bash, version 4.2.46(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: InMotionHosting

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

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): cPanel Version 68.0 (build 33) | FileZilla 3.31.0

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For some reason, getssl believes that this is your webroot directory - that is, the directory from which you serve web content for www.lawandotherthings.com. Since that's probably not the case (home directories are not normally webroot directories), you'd probably want to verify what the actual webroot is, and pass that along to getssl. I'm not certain on the syntax for this, as I'm not familiar with that client myself.

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Is webroot directory the folder which contains public_html? if so, it is correct (this is a shared hosting)

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Usually if there’s a directory named public_html, that is the webroot directory - not the folder that contains it.

ie: /home/lawand12/public_html

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Oh, ok thanks will revert after making changes

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