ConnectionResetError: [WinError 10054]

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Hi,

I am trying to manually renew the certificate as I do every 3 months.

On my Win10 laptop I open an admin command line and write the command:
"certbot certonly --manual"
But today instead of getting challenge files that should be loaded to the site, I got the error:
An unexpected error occurred:
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(10054, 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host', None, 10054, None))

I am running this on the same machine (Win 10) that I am always using.
The certbot version is also the same: 2.9.0

Any idea would be helpful.
Thank you.

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After 1-2 hours, it is working now. I think there was a temporary problem on the LetsEncrypt servers. Thank you.

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It's good that it got fixed. But you should be aware that Certbot for Windows support was discontinued last year, and it's advised to switch for a more suitable ACME client for Windows.

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Thank you for the additional info.

  1. Could you please recommend on an ACME client for Windows?
  2. Is Certbot supported on Ubuntu 16?
    Thank you.
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  1. I don't use Windows so I can't advise really. Some option are listed in the post I linked in my post above.
  2. Ubuntu 16(.04) reached End Of Live in 2021. So unless you pay for Expanded Security Maintenance—I would suggest upgrading.
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The most popular ACME clients on Windows are:

Ultimately it depends what you need to use your certificate for (IIS, Apache, something else) and if it's for a production website or just development/hobby.

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Thank you again for detailing the status/options.
When activating "certbot certonly --manual" I get text and challenge file names that should be loaded to the site.
Is there a way to automatically redirect/write this text and file name to a log file (and not only print them to the console)? This will allow me to use newer Ubuntu versions that have with console only without GUI. Otherwise, I must run the command on machine that has GUI so the text & file name can be copied.
Thanks again.

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Using Let's Encrypt services manually is a major mistake. Consider switching to webroot method:
https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/using.html#webroot

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I totally agree with you. The problem is that my site is hosted by GoDaddy (linux/cpanel) and I have no access neither to the web server (I guess Apache) nor to ssh. This is the reason why I working manually: generating the certificate and then loading it using cpanel.

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You should've said so from the beginning! CertSage is a popular ACME client for GoDaddy customers:

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Thank you for this great support !

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