My domain is: orchidzone.biz
I ran this command: /certbot-auto certonly --cert-name orchidzone.biz --force-renewal
It produced this output:
Requesting to rerun ./certbot-auto with root privileges…
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
How would you like to authenticate with the ACME CA?
1: Apache Web Server plugin (apache)
2: Spin up a temporary webserver (standalone)
3: Place files in webroot directory (webroot)
Select the appropriate number [1-3] then [enter] (press ‘c’ to cancel): 1
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer None
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for www.orchidzone.biz
Waiting for verification…
Challenge failed for domain www.orchidzone.biz
http-01 challenge for www.orchidzone.biz
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: www.orchidzone.biz
Type: connection
Detail: dns :: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for
www.orchidzone.biz
To fix these errors, please make sure that your domain name was
entered correctly and the DNS A/AAAA record(s) for that domain
contain(s) the right IP address. Additionally, please check that
your computer has a publicly routable IP address and that no
firewalls are preventing the server from communicating with the
client. If you’re using the webroot plugin, you should also verify
that you are serving files from the webroot path you provided.
My web server is (include version): apache on Google cloud plantform compute engine
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 ( Google cloud plantform compute engine )
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Google cloud plantform compute engine
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): SSH to VM instance
I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): Google cloud plantform compute engine
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): certbot 0.32.0