Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. crt.sh | example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.
My domain is:
No domain is being used yet because we are using certificate in our Dev. server to test some features.
I ran this command:
$ sudo certbot -v --nginx -d IP Address
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx
Requesting a certificate for IP Address
An unexpected error occurred:
Error creating new order :: Cannot issue for "IP Address": Domain name needs at least one dot
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.
It produced this output:
An unexpected error occurred:
Error creating new order :: Cannot issue for "IP Address": Domain name needs at least one dot
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.
My web server is (include version):
Nginx
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Ubuntu 20.0.4
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
Digital Ocean
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):
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
1.29.0
Hi,
Could you please let me know whether IP address or a hostname is supported for generating Certificate. We badly needed this to test additional features of the site.
Best regards,
~Ram