Failed to renew: Timeout during connect (likely firewall rules)

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My domain is: biosymphony.hmbdbio.bio

I ran this command: sudo certbot renew -v

It produced this output:
Certificate is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Simulating renewal of an existing certificate for biosymphony.hmbdbio.bio
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for biosymphony.hmbdbio.bio
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain biosymphony.hmbdbio.bio
http-01 challenge for biosymphony.hmbdbio.bio

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: apache). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: biosymphony.hmbdbio.bio
Type: connection
Detail: Fetching http://biosymphony.hmbdbio.bio/.well-known/acme-challenge/qwEQ9I2G1WrlPuqQ0cYNw-rAFzoDQLxI1VPGVzGMqgA: Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary Apache configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains point to this Apache server and that it is accessible from the internet.

Cleaning up challenges
Failed to renew certificate biosymphony.hmbdbio.bio with error: Some challenges have failed.

My web server is (include version):

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I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): yes

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The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): 1.22.0

Welcome to the community @NorhishamMN

Have you added a firewall recently? Because I cannot reach your website from the US or several other places around the globe.

The Let's Debug test site (link here) shows the error you see above

Or, maybe your IP address changed? The DNS says 20.195.49.110

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Hi @MikeMcQ ,

Thank you for the reply, sorry for the delayed reply
IP Address is same nothing is changed, its a public ipv4 address that was created in Azure
Port 80 is already open from source to public IP

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Hi @MikeMcQ ,

Sorry found out what the issue was, I was typing earlier that Port 80 is open from source to public
Then it strikes me, port 80 should open for everything for cert to renew
Did that and it works :smile:

Thank you!

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