Certificate Renewal Errors

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My domain is: lowearthorbit.de / novamova.pro

I ran this command: sudo certbot --nginx

It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

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1: lowearthorbit.de
2: play.lowearthorbit.de
3: novamova.pro


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Requesting a certificate for lowearthorbit.de

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: nginx). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: lowearthorbit.de
Type: unauthorized
Detail: 79.210.117.59: Invalid response from http://lowearthorbit.de/.well-known/acme-challenge/mOQhndEPvqiyhpTNF35n7SY46u2mBxWQNEieBxBHj9A: 404

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary nginx configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure the listed domains point to this nginx server and that it is accessible from the internet.

Some challenges have failed.
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/1.22.1

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.47+rpt-rpi-v8

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
self hosted

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 5.2.2

My certs ran out today and I wanted to update them. But it doesnt work...
Ports are open, dns is still valid. Idk what's wrong everythings the same as always.

lowearthorbit.de appears to be currently served by an Apache web server, is one running on your Raspberry Pi?

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I don't know what on earth installed apache2 as a dependency but yeah that was the issue thanks a lot!

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