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My domain is: lonestarelixir.com
I ran this command: sudo /usr/local/bin/certbot renew --preferred-challenges http-01
It produced this output:
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/certbot renew --preferred-challenges http-01
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Processing /usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/renewal/lonestarelixir.com.conf
Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing…
Plugins selected: Authenticator standalone, Installer None
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for lonestarelixir.com
Waiting for verification…
Cleaning up challenges
Attempting to renew cert (lonestarelixir.com) from /usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/renewal/lonestarelixir.com.conf produced an unexpected error: Failed authorization procedure. lonestarelixir.com (http-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response from http://lonestarelixir.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/Fu0Uymtz_7Xf17C-9JSJmqi-Pd1WOIo3e-XaZTNmY_4: “\r\n404 Not Found\r\n<body bgcolor=“white”>\r\n
404 Not Found
\r\n”. Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/lonestarelixir.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/lonestarelixir.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
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The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: lonestarelixir.com
Type: unauthorized
Detail: Invalid response from
http://lonestarelixir.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/Fu0Uymtz_7Xf17C-9JSJmqi-Pd1WOIo3e-XaZTNmY_4:
“\r\n404 Not Found\r\n<body
bgcolor=“white”>\r\n404 Not
\r\n
Found
”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.
My web server is (include version): nginx version: nginx/1.10.1
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): FreeBSD 11.0
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: GCE
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
I have put a test file in the cert directory and am able to access the file via https and http. My assumption is that certbot is not writing the test verification file: Fu0Uymtz_7Xf17C-9JSJmqi-Pd1WOIo3e-XaZTNmY_4.