Challenge failed for domain

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My domain is:
adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de

I ran this command:
certbot certonly --webroot -w /var/www/certbot --preferred-challenges http --staging --email hans-georg.gloeckler@uni-ulm.de --agree-tos --force-renewal -d adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de

It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer None
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de
Using the webroot path /var/www/certbot for all unmatched domains.
Waiting for verification…
Challenge failed for domain adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de
http-01 challenge for adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • The following errors were reported by the server:

    Domain: adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de
    Type: connection
    Detail: Fetching
    http://adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de/.well-known/acme-challenge/Me4P8S3jL7v-v0akOzgcUJtxJkokkB5YYj1edy1P7wo:
    Connection refused

    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. Additionally, please check that
    your computer has a publicly routable IP address and that no
    firewalls are preventing the server from communicating with the
    client. If you’re using the webroot plugin, you should also verify
    that you are serving files from the webroot path you provided.

My web server is (include version):
nginx

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
dockerimage

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or 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):

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):

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Hi @haglo

looks like a blocking firewall ( https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de ):

Domainname Http-Status redirect Sec. G
• http://adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de/
134.60.73.82 -2 1.077 V
ConnectFailure - Unable to connect to the remote server No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 134.60.73.82:80
• https://adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de/
134.60.73.82 -2 1.080 V
ConnectFailure - Unable to connect to the remote server No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 134.60.73.82:443
• http://adrenalin.informatik.uni-ulm.de/.well-known/acme-challenge/check-your-website-dot-server-daten-dot-de
134.60.73.82 -2 1.084 V
ConnectFailure - Unable to connect to the remote server No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 134.60.73.82:80
Visible Content:

That's

because the target machine actively refused it

a typical firewall situation.

Your port 80 must be active.

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