I followed everything exactly as is, except I already have a domain with cloudflare so I did not need to transfer one from GoDaddy like he did. However, I keep getting this error
"DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT for _acme-challenge.(mydomain)- check that a DNS record exists for this domain.
Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the DNS TXT records created by --dns-cloudflare. Ensure the above domains are hosted by this DNS provider, or try increasing --dns-cloudflare-propagation-seconds (currently 10 seconds)."
From my research into it, it looks like maybe I needed to configure the DNS records? So I added the following
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