I’m missing something I ran the commands below - and I received two errors for domains I shouldn’t have included in the list. I tested and it didn’t work and I reran and hit limits.
when I check /etc/letsencrypt I find only these directories:
This means you hit the rate limit (failed certificates per hour)
If you urgently need a certificate, please add another host name on it (just to bypass the rate limit)
Also, please check your proper cronjob or what to avoid issuing duplicate certificates or failed to issue (since it might cause trouble to future renew)
Thank you
P.S. you can test the validation by adding--staging (kind of amazed that my keyboard remembered this)
@stevenzhu, there are no certificates at all for this domain on crt.sh and there’s no /etc/letsencrypt/archive so I think the certificates were never issued at all. In that case the rate limit is the failed authorization rate limit (which applies to failed attempts, not issuances) and that will expire in just 1 hour.
I wish all forum posters would please post the exact error message that they get, not just the fact that there was an error. There are probably over 30 different reasons that certificate issuance can fail and something like 5 different rate limits. So we won’t know what went wrong unless we can see the specific error.