Error renewing a cert

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My domain is: www.schulte-informationmanagement.de

I ran this command:
certbot-auto

It produced this output:

Domain: www.schulte-informationmanagement.de
Type: unauthorized
Detail: Invalid response from
http://www.schulte-informationmanagement.de/.well-known/acme-challenge/bGI-kdWAfZzQKgdBHLsU4ILQomvkxF1b111CooljkkE
[217.172.165.65]: “\n\n404 Not
Found\n\n

Not Found

\n<p”

My web server is (include version):
apache

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
DEbian 6

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: glowfish.de

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): 0.34

Christian Schulte

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Hi @chriscross

checking the main page manual there is a "It works" - page visible.

This is the default web page for this server.

The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet

Powered by Glowfish Convenient Web- and Serverhosting.

Is this a page of your server or is this a blocking page from your hoster? So your hoster may block checking the validation file?

Your main configuration looks ok ( https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=schulte-informationmanagement.de ):

Domainname Http-Status redirect Sec. G
• http://schulte-informationmanagement.de/
217.172.165.65 200 0.044 H
• http://www.schulte-informationmanagement.de/
217.172.165.65 200 0.040 H
• https://schulte-informationmanagement.de/
217.172.165.65 -14 10.027 T
Timeout - The operation has timed out
• https://www.schulte-informationmanagement.de/
217.172.165.65 -14 10.027 T
Timeout - The operation has timed out
• http://schulte-informationmanagement.de/.well-known/acme-challenge/check-your-website-dot-server-daten-dot-de
217.172.165.65 404 0.044 A
Not Found
Visible Content: Not Found The requested URL /.well-known/acme-challenge/check-your-website-dot-server-daten-dot-de was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Server at schulte-informationmanagement.de Port 80
• http://www.schulte-informationmanagement.de/.well-known/acme-challenge/check-your-website-dot-server-daten-dot-de
217.172.165.65 404 0.043 A
Not Found
Visible Content: Not Found The requested URL /.well-known/acme-challenge/check-your-website-dot-server-daten-dot-de was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Server at www.schulte-informationmanagement.de Port 80

Port 80 is open, no wrong redirect, checking a not existing file in /.well-known/acme-challenge sends the expected http status 404 - Not Found.

Try to find your DocumentRoot, then use it.

certbot run -a webroot -i apache -w yourDocumentRoot -d www.schulte-informationmanagement.de -d schulte-informationmanagement.de
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Hello Juergen,

I just have deleted the whole domain on this server and tried to start certbot-auto again.
I still get the same error even if the domain is deleted.
Is there anything cached?

Thanks in advanced.

Christian

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If you have deleted the vHost, you can't create a certificate.

You need a working http website if you want to use http-01 validation and apache/nginx/webroot as authenticator.

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no, i just want to run certbot-auto against the other domains but it stops. with the message:

Error while running apache2ctl configtest.
Action ‘configtest’ failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

[Tue May 28 20:44:52 2019] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication
Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/schulte-informationmanagement.de/web] does not exist
apache2: bad user name web13

I just want to get it up and running before I configure the new Website again

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