# Renewal of certificate failed

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-of-certificate-failed/98504>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 25, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-of-certificate-failed/98504 "2019-07-25T19:31:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![vatolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ce7236/32.png) [@vatolin](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/vatolin)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-of-certificate-failed/98504/1 "2019-07-25T19:31:00Z")

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What am I doing wrong?

pi@raspberrypi:/ $ sudo certbot renew  
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

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Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com.conf

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Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing…  
Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer None  
Renewing an existing certificate  
Performing the following challenges:  
http-01 challenge for [vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com](http://vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com)  
Waiting for verification…  
Cleaning up challenges  
Attempting to renew cert ([vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com](http://vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com)) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com.conf produced an unexpected error: Failed authorization procedure. [vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com](http://vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com) (http-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response from [https://vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/94ee6FZS-bkAZDzdjMtuandbMZzCXfO-BFI8Q-QOX7U](https://vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/94ee6FZS-bkAZDzdjMtuandbMZzCXfO-BFI8Q-QOX7U) [92.208.167.243]: “\r\n403 Forbidden\r\n\<body bgcolor=“white”\>\r\n

# 403 Forbidden
\r\n
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”. Skipping.  
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:  
/etc/letsencrypt/live/vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
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All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:  
/etc/letsencrypt/live/vatocloud.firewall-gateway.com/fullchain.pem (failure)

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1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

- The following errors were reported by the server:

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**Author:** ![mnordhoff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/mnordhoff/32/22583_2.png) [@mnordhoff](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mnordhoff)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-of-certificate-failed/98504/2 "2019-07-25T19:46:40Z")

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Check your Nginx logs to see what’s happening to the requests.

Are you sure they’re arriving at the correct computer?

The correct Nginx virtual host?

What’s the Nginx configuration?

(Is the website supposed to be using Nginx?)

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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 24, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewal-of-certificate-failed/98504/3 "2019-08-24T19:46:48Z")

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