So certs are current and valid for domain free-maths.games and some sub-domains. Dry-run fails citing insufficient authorisation - possibly I created the certs .pem as root then blocked root access and am attempting dry-run as sudo user (I can’t remember the exact chronology), or there is a different issue?
My domain is:free-maths.games
I ran this command: sudo certbot renew --dry-run
It produced this output:Cert not due for renewal, but simulating renewal for dry run
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for au.free-maths.games
http-01 challenge for ca.free-maths.games
http-01 challenge for free-maths.games
http-01 challenge for uk.free-maths.games
http-01 challenge for us.free-maths.games
http-01 challenge for www.free-maths.games
Waiting for verification…
Cleaning up challenges
Attempting to renew cert (free-maths.games) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/free-maths.games.conf produced an unexpected error: Failed authorization procedure. us.free-maths.games (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: The key authorization file from the server did not match this challenge “uiGQHPCPcEftlFitnsCjPjQxHEcAlBYxVF80vhVcVvk.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU” != “”, ca.free-maths.games (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: The key authorization file from the server did not match this challenge “XqnCZYFjCm8dmmU3QPWhrVi4ChlhMMelq7MBbYIxw8o.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU” != “”, free-maths.games (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: The key authorization file from the server did not match this challenge “waxvQQsFfOijwt3AZY7agSfhkJjCcR80IIG6PuNNjQg.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU” != “”, au.free-maths.games (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: The key authorization file from the server did not match this challenge “semph7knb1wg1-FQA8QOfapAH4A91_jU2O92DBb0Kbs.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU” != “”, uk.free-maths.games (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: The key authorization file from the server did not match this challenge “TZ4iFhW0CkeJlUAdzs5HlpsjYNgOgsV0env7QSBvi0A.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU” != “”, www.free-maths.games (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: The key authorization file from the server did not match this challenge “5Lsfs-FZKStGV1hOyFrvfVeYT5ZvS0DmxNjQE1BPc6s.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU” != “”. Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/free-maths.games/fullchain.pem (failure)
** DRY RUN: simulating ‘certbot renew’ close to cert expiry
** (The test certificates below have not been saved.)
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/free-maths.games/fullchain.pem (failure)
** DRY RUN: simulating ‘certbot renew’ close to cert expiry
** (The test certificates above have not been saved.)
1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
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The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: us.free-maths.games
Type: unauthorized
Detail: The key authorization file from the server did not match
this challenge
“uiGQHPCPcEftlFitnsCjPjQxHEcAlBYxVF80vhVcVvk.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU”
!= “”Domain: ca.free-maths.games
Type: unauthorized
Detail: The key authorization file from the server did not match
this challenge
“XqnCZYFjCm8dmmU3QPWhrVi4ChlhMMelq7MBbYIxw8o.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU”
!= “”Domain: free-maths.games
Type: unauthorized
Detail: The key authorization file from the server did not match
this challenge
“waxvQQsFfOijwt3AZY7agSfhkJjCcR80IIG6PuNNjQg.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU”
!= “”Domain: au.free-maths.games
Type: unauthorized
Detail: The key authorization file from the server did not match
this challenge
“semph7knb1wg1-FQA8QOfapAH4A91_jU2O92DBb0Kbs.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU”
!= “”Domain: uk.free-maths.games
Type: unauthorized
Detail: The key authorization file from the server did not match
this challenge
“TZ4iFhW0CkeJlUAdzs5HlpsjYNgOgsV0env7QSBvi0A.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU”
!= “”Domain: www.free-maths.games
Type: unauthorized
Detail: The key authorization file from the server did not match
this challenge
“5Lsfs-FZKStGV1hOyFrvfVeYT5ZvS0DmxNjQE1BPc6s.1cClhWZ2kmBMPOf26RByH4mhlE6TYT7pkSM1l_iWUoU”
!= “”To fix these errors, please make sure that your domain name was
entered correctly and the DNS A/AAAA record(s) for that domain
contain(s) the right IP address.
My web server is (include version): apache2
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Debian 9
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Linode
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): no, root access blocked by sshd config and ufw
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 0.28.0