Let's encrypt ownership verification?

I’m following this tutorial https://www.kosinix.com/install-lets-encrypt-certificate-on-shared-hosting/ to install LE certificate, but in the 6 step I didn’t know where’s the .well-known directory ( I’m using Godaddy CPanel ) and what’s the extension of the file that I should create in .well-known/acme-challenge/

The file should NOT have any extension

And the .well-known directory won’t necessarily already exist, although it might. So if you can’t find one, where would you put a file that you expected to appear as the front page of your site? Probably the .well-known directory needs to go inside that directory, try creating it there. I’m not a Godaddy Cpanel user though, so if another Godaddy user knows better hopefully they’ll speak up.

so I should have /home/me/.well-known/acme-challenge?

The files need to be available at the following url: http://example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/{random_token}.

That means you’ll need to put them in the “root” directory of your web server. if that’s /home/me/ in your case, that path is correct.

I’ve created the two file but got : self verify of challenge failed
self verify of challenge failed
Failed authorization procedure. itravvel.com (http-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response from http://itravvel.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/jgYS0idOtIaTCsflp67CxZJHSoZLqnG6fLxT8-7sOmw: "<!doctype html >

<!" then some IMPORTANT NOTES.

Your web server is replying with a 404 for that URL (you can just open it in your browser to test that yourself). You either got the wrong directory, or something else is interfering (like for example a .htaccess file that rewrites all requests).

I think it has to do with encoding type, because the LE client uses only text/plain but in cpanel when I copy the content to those files I have text/xgeneric utf-8.

Your site is replying with a 404 and a website instead of the verification token. Encoding is not related, and is not even checked anymore (it used to be in the very early phase).

Okay thanks, any suggestion in mind?

Yes, check the following:

Thank you for your help, the problem is that .well-known/acme-challege should be created in /home/me/public_html

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