It ran out can't renew

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My domain is: a open port in my home.

I ran this command:

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version):

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or 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):

Here is the command line with my host name changed and IP changed too.

root@server:~# ssl-cert-check -c ssl-cert-check -c /etc/letsencrypt/live/server.com/cert.pem

Host Status Expires Days

FILE:/etc/letsencrypt/live/server.com/cert.pem Expiring Dec 30, 2020 29
root@rayday:~# certbot run -a webroot -i apache -w /media/6TB/USBdisk2-3TB/var/www -d server.com
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer apache
Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for server.com
Using the webroot path /media/6TB/USBdisk2-3TB/var/www for all unmatched domains.
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain server.com
http-01 challenge for server.com
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.

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I waited a few hours to run the command again. server.com is not my real URL.

Don't know what is wrong. The "Challenge failed for domain" is in red. I guess I must of changed the permissions from last renew not sure.

-Raymond Day

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Hi @Ray

a domain name is required if you want to create a certificate. An ip address + port isn't enough.

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Wow took me all day to find it out. The web page that got a error said nginx on it. I don't know what that was. So looked on Google. Found it was at /ect/nginx/sites-available/default file there looked at it and it has a root /var/www/html; in it. I changed that to were I have my web files root /media/WD-10TB-2/USBdisk2-3TB/var/www; Then restarted it. systemctl restart nginx Then refresh my home page on my server about the 100th time I did but this time it came up!

Guess when I updated to 20.04.1 it added that nginx and messed my webpage up.

So now that the web page works I could run the letsencrypt and it says I have 90 days now.

Wow happy got this working good thanks it gave a hint on the webpage that could not be displayed.

-Raymond Day

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Happy to hear its working but I for one wish we could witness the results of your efforts. :face_with_monocle:

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