Invalid response(404) with certonly

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My domain is: itherio.com

I ran this command:

$ sudo certbot certonly -d itherio.com
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

How would you like to authenticate with the ACME CA?

1: Apache Web Server plugin (apache)
2: Spin up a temporary webserver (standalone)
3: Place files in webroot directory (webroot)

Select the appropriate number [1-3] then [enter] (press 'c' to cancel): 1
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer None
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for itherio.com
Enabled Apache rewrite module
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain itherio.com
http-01 challenge for itherio.com
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • The following errors were reported by the server:

    Domain: itherio.com
    Type: unauthorized
    Detail: Invalid response from https://itherio.com/404.shtml
    [72.52.246.107]: "\n<html
    style="height:100%">\n\n<meta name="viewport"
    content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-"

    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): Apache/2.4.46 (Ubuntu)

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 20.10

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Elixirnode? I'm running this on a RaspPi 4

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): certbot 1.7.0

Sorry, I do hope someone is able to help me. I previously used Certbot on a Windows system and am now trying to renew on Ubuntu. I also tried some of the third party tools and didn't seem to get anywhere.

Thank you in advance.

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Hi @Jayms

reading your check, some hours old - https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=itherio.com#url-checks

There runs a Litespeed, not an Apache. So the Apache plugin may not work.

May be try to use webroot.

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