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It produced this output: Says no IP addresses found for domain when my Apache is off.
My web server is (include version): Apache
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Windows 10
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
Rogers
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know):
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):
Is it really necessary to use the --standalone plugin? As far as I know, the --webroot plugin also works on Windows (not sure about the --apache plugin though, can't find it in the documentation......)
The --standalone plugin (and the --webroot plugin too by the way) uses the http-01 challenge, which requires a publicly available IP address to connect to by the Let's Encrypt validation server. If you don't or can't use a publicly available IP address, you could try to use the dns-01 plugin.
"root" is the superuser on Linux/Unix systems, which would be "Administrator" rights on a Windows system.
You should know the answer to the control panel question and the client version question.
Please copy/paste the entire output if requested, although for now we have enough information.
It's the path configured by the DocumentRoot directive in Apache. But standalone or webroot isn't your biggest problem: if you want to use either plugin, you need to fix the IP address first.
It seems you're using no-ip's dynamic DNS system. I don't have experience with that, but you should somehow configure your dynamic DNS software to use the public IP address of your internet connection in stead of the private IP address of the computer. Also, remember that port 80 and port 443 should be portmapped to your local computer in your NAT router, if applicable. And all firewalls need to be open for port 80 and 443.
I don't understand. You're speaking about your router.. Are you talking about the port forwarding? Because I wasn't. I was talking about the DNS configuration of your hostname, as I specified in my first post in this thread.
oh i was talking about port forwarding. thing is i dont even know what DNS configuration of hostname. does it have something to do with the config in apache.
im starting off a few youtube videos, so i ask that you please be patient with me. the reason why I want an SSL is because I want to put Cloudflare or OVH on the site as a learning experience.
Your hostname is 16adrenaline.ddns.net. You somehow acquired that hostname, probably through ddns.net or perhaps no-ip.com. You need to change the DNS settings for your hostname somehow, perhaps through ddns.net or no-ip.com too, I don't know.
No, Apache is a webserver. It does not do DNS things.