# Multiple challenges when requesting wildcard certificate for 3 domains

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/multiple-challenges-when-requesting-wildcard-certificate-for-3-domains/66783>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 15, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/multiple-challenges-when-requesting-wildcard-certificate-for-3-domains/66783 "2018-07-15T18:08:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![stepotronic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@stepotronic](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/stepotronic)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/multiple-challenges-when-requesting-wildcard-certificate-for-3-domains/66783/1 "2018-07-15T18:08:08Z")

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First of all thank you for this amazing service.  
I am using certbot 0.26.0 on Ubuntu with Apache2.6 and I am trying to obtain a wildcard certificate for multiple domains (3).  
Each domain I add without the asterisk e.g. _-d [example.com](http://example.com)_ and with the asterisk -d \*.example.com so I provide 6 parameters in total.  
I am having the following issue:  
Certbot asks me to set up the \_acme\_challenge for each domain twice once for the domain without the wildcard, once with the wildcard. Therfore the challenges cannot complete. Because I can only verify one of them.

Example:  
Please deploy a DNS TXT record under the name  
\_acme-challenge.example.com with the following value:

T9RZjnHCBbVF11K2GLP1-HWkwn9oTYBUGbE9gTYgep8

Before continuing, verify the record is deployed.

I will now investigate how to try and use the plugin, however I still believe the above mentioned behaviour is a bug.

Kind Regards  
Thorsten

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**Author:** ![JuergenAuer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/juergenauer/32/26491_2.png) [@JuergenAuer](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/JuergenAuer)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/multiple-challenges-when-requesting-wildcard-certificate-for-3-domains/66783/2 "2018-07-15T18:18:23Z")

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Hi @stepotronic

> [@stepotronic](#):
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> Certbot asks me to set up the \_acme\_challenge for each domain twice. Therfore the challenges cannot complete. Because I can only verify one of them.

if you have two names \*.example.com and [example.com](http://example.com), you have to create two txt dns-entries with the same name:

\_acme-challenge.example.com

or only \_acme-challenge, if your dns-menu adds .example.com per default.

and with the two different values. Then it works.

What's your domain name? Then it can be checked.

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**Author:** ![stepotronic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@stepotronic](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/stepotronic)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/multiple-challenges-when-requesting-wildcard-certificate-for-3-domains/66783/3 "2018-07-15T18:24:17Z")

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I had no idea you could have multiple entries with \_acme-challenge. I thought those were supposed to be unique. Thank you very much, I will try that now.

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**Author:** ![stepotronic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@stepotronic](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/stepotronic)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/multiple-challenges-when-requesting-wildcard-certificate-for-3-domains/66783/4 "2018-07-23T12:42:35Z")

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I think I owe you a “it worked” 🙂 However I really dislike the fact that the challenge text changes so quickly. If you did not manage within a certain time, you have to wait again for some time.

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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:** [August 22, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/multiple-challenges-when-requesting-wildcard-certificate-for-3-domains/66783/5 "2018-08-22T12:42:47Z")

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