My hosting has the possibility to select the let’s encrypt certificate and put it into the website automatically.
Unfortunately, when I do it, you send me this request:
It produced this output:
You have requested a free Let’s Encrypt certificate. Before the certificate is issued, further authentication is required. Please choose an authentication method below and do not make any changes to the values. You can remove the created entries or files once you have been issued your certificate.
File-based authentication: Please save text files under the path shown and copy the content into these files (without any whitespaces):
DNS-based authentication: Please add the following DNS entries (as TXT records!) to your domain’s zonefile:
_acme-challenge.****************.com. IN TXT "hgJQ6KvkEvlJgr6J3tKc8VKMVZTV29btyOc6NcMtdk8"
Important note: Your order will be valid for up to 7 days. If you do not successfully authenticate your certificate within 7 days, your order will be automatically deleted.
My web server is (include version):
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Linux - Apache
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):
In .well-known/acme-challenge folder under the “root” directory of your site.
To verify you did everything right, fetching http://************.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/901Avppx_AU4J010IqFey2DKndGY0rQp_aQgh4sdtTc in a browser, should return aforementioned string back.
Unfortunately, the check could not find a valid authentication method. You can generate authentication tokens via the “request authentication” option. Please keep in mind that DNS-based authentication may take a few hours before the entries are accessible.
And I don’t understand why in KonsoleH I cannot select the let’s encrypt certificate, it looks not enabled.
I send you a screen shot
This all looks alien to me. You may have more luck contacting support of your hosting.
Unless you find a “push 1 button” solution in your panel, this method of obtaining certificates may prove inconvenient, since youʼll have to do this every 60–90 days.
You mention that you have root shell access, it may be more worthwhile to use a command line client.
