New setup questions

Hey guys please be patient with me as I am new to this system. I am in the process of setting up my Nextcloud server on a Ubuntu 22.04 VM and obviously, to host it over the internet it needs a cert, and Lets Encrypt is integrated into the Linux package. I have several questions please.

  1. I have a No_IP account and host names to redirect to the static IP on the server can I use that instead of a Domain? Note: I do have a domain (Its a google domain)

  2. I did port forwarding for port 80 and 443 to the server but I have 2 web servers I want to host. This one and a Windows server for ticketing later on I know I cant port forward the same ports twice so what's the best setup for that?

  3. when trying to create the certs I get an error saying "The connection timed out " I believe this is because google takes a while to update the DNS A record. Does that sound right?

Thank you guys so much for your time!

My domain is: nextcloud22.net

Hello @computermaster18, welcome to the Let's Encrypt community. :slightly_smiling_face:

Best Practice - Keep Port 80 Open

No IP Ports are making it through from the Internet to the domain, I tried from 2 different IP Addresses.
Probably a firewall issue.

$ nmap -Pn nextcloud22.net
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-11-24 23:27 UTC
Nmap scan report for nextcloud22.net (208.104.38.94)
Host is up.
rDNS record for 208.104.38.94: 208-104-38-94.cm.gilbsc.sta.comporium.net
All 1000 scanned ports on nextcloud22.net (208.104.38.94) are filtered

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 201.82 seconds
>nmap -Pn nextcloud22.net
Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-11-24 23:32 UTC
Nmap scan report for nextcloud22.net (208.104.38.94)
Host is up.
rDNS record for 208.104.38.94: 208-104-38-94.cm.gilbsc.sta.comporium.net
All 1000 scanned ports on nextcloud22.net (208.104.38.94) are in ignored states.
Not shown: 1000 filtered tcp ports (no-response)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 413.27 seconds

Using this online tool https://check-host.net/ the permanent link results are here Check website performance and response: Check host - online website monitoring

Using this online tool https://letsdebug.net/ the permanent link results are here Let's Debug

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I think I fixed the issue with it not connecting. Should I just allow Port 80 for everything on the firewall? Currently looking to see where to save this cert to


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Also here is a list of issued certificates crt.sh | nextcloud22.net

Testing and debugging are best done using the Staging Environment as the Rate Limits are much higher. Rate Limits are per week (rolling).

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Look like you have successfully gotten and installed a Let's Encrypt Certificate! :slight_smile:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=nextcloud22.net

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Yes thank you for your help!

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