Failed Authencation

Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. crt.sh | example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is: vodia.sworth.com

[9] 21:38:00.135 Received 589 bytesⓘ
HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Server: nginx
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:38:00 GMT
Content-Type: application/problem+json
Content-Length: 213
Connection: keep-alive
Boulder-Requester: 857813567
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0, no-cache
Link: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory;rel="index"
Replay-Nonce: 2712kPV6MqZO3lk1N8m4E7-SYpofAgUtV_vOl6TVWMNtS2Y

[7] 21:38:00.135 https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-order: Return code 429 (213 bytes)ⓘ
{
"type": "urn:ietf:params:acme:error:rateLimited",
"detail": "Error creating new order :: too many failed authorizations recently: see Failed Validation Limit - Let's Encrypt",
"status": 429

Hi @hkeyz, and welcome to the LE community forum :slight_smile:

You should be using the staging environment for testing.

Please take the time to fill out the following questions and add any pertinent information and logs if you have any.


Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. https://crt.sh/?q=example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is:

I ran this command:

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):

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

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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Also, you can follow that link to learn more, there is a limit of 5 failures per account, per hostname, per hour. So you should fix whatever is causing your failed validation, wait an hour, then try again.

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