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), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.
My domain is: i dont know (localhost)?
I ran this command: sudo certbot --apache
It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
No names were found in your configuration files. Please enter in your domain
name(s) (comma and/or space separated) (Enter ‘c’ to cancel): https://localhost/
One or more of the entered domain names was not valid:
https://localhost/: Requested name https://localhost/ appears to be a URL, not a
FQDN. Try again without the leading “https://”.
Would you like to re-enter the names?
(Y)es/(N)o: y
Please enter in your domain name(s) (comma and/or space separated) (Enter 'c’
to cancel): localhost/
Obtaining a new certificate
An unexpected error occurred:
The request message was malformed :: Error creating new authz :: Invalid character in DNS name
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.
My web server is (include version):
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Apache/2.4.18
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: i dont know.
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
okay so through these questions I think i already know the answer. I cant use lets encrypt just with my localhost i need to actually have a website up and running. Am I right?