My domain is: webchat.alphachat.net I ran this command: /usr/local/dehydrated/dehydrated --cron --keep-going --config /etc/dehydrated/config-rsa It produced this output: No output beyond “Responding to challenge”, challenge status URI says pending and this never changes, but I can curl the chal…

I should mention it works fine on the staging API (literally just changing the CA configuration option, nothing else).

Does the log show anything ? It’s probably worth raising an issue on the dehydrated github page.

The webserver access log shows that the last request for a challenge token was several days ago.

and dehydrated just hangs, waiting at that point ?

It waits until the challenge succeeds or fails, yes. So being stuck in pending is a problem.

Unfortunately I don’t use dehydrated, and it doesn’t seem to have a debug option to give more information that I’d recognise / use to help find the cause of the issue. The best bet may be the dehydrated github ( so you can resolve this with the script author). The only other thing I can suggest is…

I’ve read the relevant part of the client source code; it just does an HTTP request to the status URI until it succeeds or fails. LE isn’t requesting the token from the web server. I don’t believe this is a client-side problem. lukas2511/dehydrated/blob/master/dehydrated#L513-L522 if <<<"$…

Possibly - I have no access to letsencrypt servers though to be able to see / debug - so I can only debug from the client side info :wink: From my perspective I’d want to see the complete requests for the domain. My guess is that a different method ( perhaps DNS ? ) is validated for your account …

The complete output is at https://paste.debian.net/plainh/0e33f182 – it issues me a challenge when the client requests one, so I don’t really know what to say.

Challenges stay at pending state, ACME client locks up

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The thread Upcoming change: valid authz reuse is information about what I suspect is the most likely cause of your issue.

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