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I ran this command: sudo ./letsencrypt-auto --apache -d rahma.dyndns.org
It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for rahma.dyndns.org
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
Failed authorization procedure. rahma.dyndns.org (http-01): urn:acme:error:connection :: The server could not connect to the client to verify the domain :: Fetching http://rahma.dyndns.org/.well-known/acme-challenge/glRoScTSYCTLDnyar9lHVR5US7vrTC8lay8GPhPJ_PA: Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: rahma.dyndns.org
Type: connection
Detail: Fetching
http://rahma.dyndns.org/.well-known/acme-challenge/glRoScTSYCTLDnyar9lHVR5US7vrTC8lay8GPhPJ_PA:
Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)
To fix these errors, please make sure that your domain name was
entered correctly and the DNS A/AAAA record(s) for that domain
contain(s) the right IP address. Additionally, please check that
your computer has a publicly routable IP address and that no
firewalls are preventing the server from communicating with the
client. If you're using the webroot plugin, you should also verify
that you are serving files from the webroot path you provided.
My web server is (include version): apache2 v. 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.8
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit)
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: self
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
This appears similar to other previous posts, but I’ve reviewed them and I think this is a different problem.
Basically, I’m seeing no evidence in apache logs that the attempt to authorize hits my server at all. However, I am able to get to a test file in the webroot folder on the server via both ports 80 and 443.
The external connection goes thru an ISP modem to an internal router to the server. Both of these ports are open on both devices and ISP directs to router which directs to server. And, this works in a browser to pull up web pages on the server from outside on both ports.
Firewalls are deactivated on both devices.
Why can I serve web pages to the internet on both ports, but the authorization command cannot get thru to the server?
Sahsanu, et al. My ISP is, in fact, blocking inbound port 80 and per my discussion with them, they will not unblock it unless I buy the company I am not that rich.
Does anyone have suggestions about how to create authorization certificate without port 80 open? (Port 443 is open and working)
Thanks schoen. Unfortunately we are not able to create TXT records as the domain is a dynamic DNS. That in itself is a problem apparently. We’ll rethink our strategy.
If you don't mind to change the domain there are alternatives.
You can buy a cheap domain or get a free domain at http://www.freenom.com and use a dns provider like Cloudflare, it is free and has an API to update/create/delete DNS records and also allows to update records using ddclient to modify the records for your domain with your dynamic ip address.
If you don't like that idea, you can also use another free dynamic DNS provider that supports adding TXT records (needed for dns challenge) like https://www.dynu.com/. A few days ago I wrote a post with several steps to use this DDNS provider and acme.sh client.
2.- Create a Dynamic DNS Service on dynu.com. Here you add your subdomain and choose the base domain (there are a few to choose, in this example I will use mydyndomain as subdomain and dynu.net as base domain)
3.- Once the domain is created, go to Control Panel -> API Credentials and click on button Reset Credentials, now take note of Client ID and Secret (we will use them later).
6.- Once installed, issue the cert for your domain. Here we will export 2 variables containing the previously created Client ID and Secret (obvously you need to replace the content of these variables with the real data):
I am not that rich.