I have been troubleshooting this for weeks. I have scoured the internet to no avail. I am trying to do a HTTP-01 cert. Any assistance would be MUCH appretiated. Cheers! My domain is: analoglife.net I ran this command: certbot --nginx -d analoglife.net --test-cert -v It produced this output: Savi…

[image] NerdyD: I have been troubleshooting this for weeks. I have scoured the internet to no avail Well, you've finally come to the right place. Proving you control your domain using an HTTP challenge response requires that your server can talk HTTP and that means allowing incoming traffic …

[image] webprofusion: Currently, your site does not respond to TCP port 80 connections which suggests a few possibilities: I can browse to the site and get a basic html response. Am I not communicating TCP on port 80?

Nekit - You are a life saver!!! It was a firewall rule that was blocking all non-USA connections. I adjust the firewall and it is working. Thanks for the help!!

You can keep the geo-blocking on port 443 if you want. It won't interfere with your HTTP-01 ACME challenge as long as port 80 doesn't have those restrictions.

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