# LE Error Validation

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 10, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717 "2018-02-10T08:47:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 19\
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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/1 "2018-02-10T08:47:53Z")

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Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. [https://crt.sh/?q=example.com](https://crt.sh/?q=example.com)), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is: [lscplus.com](http://lscplus.com)

I ran this command: Domain hosting edit, ssl support, select Lets Encrypt Support after select click save, after click save show error LE [lscplus.com](http://lscplus.com) Validation

It produced this output: LE [lscplus.com](http://lscplus.com) Validation

My web server is (include version): Cloud Server

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 16.04

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: [arubacloud.com](http://arubacloud.com)

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): VestaCP

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**Author:** ![\_az](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/22d042/32.png) [@\_az](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/_az)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/2 "2018-02-10T08:58:47Z")

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Could you please show the actual error message? If it helps, you can take a screenshot of the error and upload it to [imgur.com](http://imgur.com) .

It also looks like [you have issued something like 10 Let’s Encrypt certificates for this domain over the past few days](https://crt.sh/?q=lscplus.com&iCAID=16418). You may run into rate limit troubles, now or very soon.

Is there a reason you are issuing so many certificates?

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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 9:09am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/3 "2018-02-10T09:09:03Z")

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Hello

My previous server very problem … I changed a new server …how can i fix the problem with SSL … I need a ssl as soon as possible …

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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/4 "2018-02-10T09:15:32Z")

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Hello

My previous server very problem … I changed a new server …how can i fix the problem with SSL … I need a ssl as soon as possible …

Please help me SSL…

[[Album] Imgur ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/8/c822a4e2ab971f5de312312f0aab32cfb917eebd.jpg "Imgur") ](https://imgur.com/a/a55Oj)

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**Author:** ![\_az](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/22d042/32.png) [@\_az](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/_az)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 9:27am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/5 "2018-02-10T09:27:03Z")

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Unfortunately for you, that is a very useless error message ☹ .

I have checked your rate limits using [lectl](https://github.com/sahsanu/lectl) and the most likely reason that you cannot issue a certificate is because you issued so many already in the last week.

> Sorry, you can't issue any certificate, you already issued 20 certificates on last 7 days  
> You could issue next certificate on Monday 2018-Feb-12 07:57:00 AEDT

As you see in that output, you won't be able to issue a Let's Encrypt certificate for this domain until at least after this weekend.

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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 9:45am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/6 "2018-02-10T09:45:02Z")

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Hello

2018-Feb-12 07:57:00 AEDT 07:57 local time EU or ?

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**Author:** ![\_az](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/22d042/32.png) [@\_az](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/_az)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 9:48am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/7 "2018-02-10T09:48:34Z")

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AEDT is UTC+11 so it would be sometime Sunday night in Western Europe.

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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/8 "2018-02-11T21:18:47Z")

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Hello

Again same problem show …

After wait 07:57:00

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**Author:** ![sahsanu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/sahsanu/32/89984_2.png) [@sahsanu](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/sahsanu)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/9 "2018-02-11T21:47:09Z")

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Hi @lscplus2018,

Try again in 10 minutes. Let’s Encrypt always issues a certificate with date - 1 hour to avoid conflicts with misconfigured clocks but the rate limit counts from the real date when the cert was issued. lectl script only checks the date your certificate is valid from so add 1 hour to that time, in your case, you should be able to issue a cert at 2018-Feb-11 20:56 UTC (as I said, in aprox 10 minutes).

Edit:

I’ve checked again the certificates you have issued and as I said, now you should be able to issue 1 new cert BUT maybe you are reaching other [rate limit](https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/) (5 duplicated certs per 7 days). In last 7 days you issued 5 certificates covering `lscplus.com`:

```
CRT ID DOMAIN (CN) VALID FROM VALID TO EXPIRES IN SANs
325666799 lscplus.com 2018-Feb-08 14:10 UTC 2018-May-09 14:10 UTC 86 days lscplus.com
325534210 lscplus.com 2018-Feb-08 09:52 UTC 2018-May-09 09:52 UTC 86 days lscplus.com
325524125 lscplus.com 2018-Feb-08 09:29 UTC 2018-May-09 09:29 UTC 86 days lscplus.com

325501997 lscplus.com 2018-Feb-08 08:41 UTC 2018-May-09 08:41 UTC 86 days lscplus.com
325481031 lscplus.com 2018-Feb-08 07:53 UTC 2018-May-09 07:53 UTC 86 days lscplus.com

```

and 5 certificates covering `lscplus.com` and `www.lscplus.com`:

```
CRT ID DOMAIN (CN) VALID FROM VALID TO EXPIRES IN SANs
325503266 lscplus.com 2018-Feb-08 08:43 UTC 2018-May-09 08:43 UTC 86 days lscplus.com
                                                                                                            www.lscplus.com
325477738 lscplus.com 2018-Feb-08 07:47 UTC 2018-May-09 07:47 UTC 86 days lscplus.com
                                                                                                            www.lscplus.com
325441978 lscplus.com 2018-Feb-08 06:32 UTC 2018-May-09 06:32 UTC 86 days lscplus.com
                                                                                                            www.lscplus.com
323931839 lscplus.com 2018-Feb-06 10:15 UTC 2018-May-07 10:15 UTC 84 days lscplus.com
                                                                                                            www.lscplus.com
323867093 lscplus.com 2018-Feb-06 08:16 UTC 2018-May-07 08:16 UTC 84 days lscplus.com
                                                                                                            www.lscplus.com

```

So if you want to issue a cert covering only `lscplus.com` you can’t till aprox. 2018-Feb-15 08:53 UTC and if you want a cert covering `lscplus.com` and `www.lscplus.com` you can’t till aprox. 2018-Feb-13 09:16 UTC.

Cheers,  
sahsanu

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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/10 "2018-02-11T22:17:06Z")

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Hello

again try show same problem …

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**Author:** ![sahsanu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/sahsanu/32/89984_2.png) [@sahsanu](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/sahsanu)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/11 "2018-02-11T22:26:38Z")

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Check my previous post, I’ve edited the answer to cover the 5 duplicated certs per 7 days limit.

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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/12 "2018-02-11T22:27:43Z")

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Hello

2018-Feb-13 09:16 UTC.

09:06 UTC time zone for EU or ?

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**Author:** ![sahsanu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/sahsanu/32/89984_2.png) [@sahsanu](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/sahsanu)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/13 "2018-02-11T22:33:55Z")

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@lscplus2018, UTC is UTC, no time zone, I don’t know what is your country but for example, for Spain it will be UTC+1 (CET) so the date will be 2018-Feb-13 10:16 CET. If you want to convert dates to your time zone take a look to [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter-classic.html](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter-classic.html)

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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/14 "2018-02-11T22:38:12Z")

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My timezone Bosnia and Herzegovina

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**Author:** ![sahsanu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/sahsanu/32/89984_2.png) [@sahsanu](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/sahsanu)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/15 "2018-02-11T22:44:12Z")

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Then it is the same as Spain, UTC +1

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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/16 "2018-02-11T22:46:00Z")

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Hello

Thanks ansfered … 100% SSL create normal after 2018-Feb-13 10:16 no wait after 2018-Feb-13 10:16 new 1 hour to 11:16

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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/17 "2018-02-13T08:47:04Z")

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Hello

Today I can create SSL normal ?

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**Author:** ![lscplus2018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@lscplus2018](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lscplus2018)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/18 "2018-02-13T09:17:11Z")

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Hello

Done create SSL …

Thanks support !

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/le-error-validation/52717/19 "2018-03-15T09:17:30Z")

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