I've a lot of potential solutions, but none of them have worked. I have been told port 80 has been allowed to my server on the college's parameter firewall. I appreciate any help you can provide!
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My domain is: hopper.ws.edu
I ran this command: sudo certbot --apache
It produced this output:
Requesting a certificate for hopper.ws.edu
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for hopper.ws.edu
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain hopper.ws.edu
http-01 challenge for hopper.ws.edu
Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: apache). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: hopper.ws.edu
Type: connection
Detail: During secondary validation: 198.161.167.31: Fetching http://hopper.ws.edu/.well-known/acme-challenge/W21Q1BYR1mK2uhPKL0EjwNcyS_UKexx-aoquNLoCcEc: Connection refused
Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary Apache configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains point to this Apache server and that it is accessible from the internet.
Cleaning up challenges
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): Apache/2.4.62 (AlmaLinux)
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): AlmaLinux 9
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
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): 2.11.0