Renewing certificate:The client lacks sufficient authorization invalid response 404

Have been renewing certificates for this site for over 2 years without any issues. Now, all of a sudden, I start receiving the below error. This situation has been reported many times on this forum, but always under different circumstances. So far, I haven been able to find a similar case. The certificate hasn’t expired yet and the site is accessible.

My /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud-le-ssl.conf looks like this:
<VirtualHost 192.168.178.35:80 [2001:984:e2cf:1:df84:6298:91b:80b0]:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request’s Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
ServerName nextcloud.jahetken.net

    # Redirect requests to HTTPS
    Redirect permanent "/" "https://nextcloud.jahetken.net/"

    # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
    # error, crit, alert, emerg.
    # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
    # modules, e.g.
    #LogLevel info ssl:warn

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
    # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
    # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
    # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
    # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
    #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/nextcloud" ServerName nextcloud.jahetken.net ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
       Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000; includeSubDomain$
    </IfModule>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    <Directory /var/www/html/nextcloud/>
       Options +FollowSymlinks
       AllowOverride All

       <IfModule mod_dav.c>
          Dav off
       </IfModule>

       SetEnv HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
       SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
       Satisfy Any

    </Directory>

    SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nextcloud.jahetken.net/fullchain.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nextcloud.jahetken.net/privkey.pem

SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nextcloud.jahetken.net/cert.pem

SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nextcloud.jahetken.net/privkey.pem

SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/nextcloud.jahetken.net/fullchain.pem

    Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf

(don know how to copy/paste text in a readable format, but conf file ends here).

Appreciate any help to point me in the right direction. Ultimately I can always re-install Letsencrypt, but want to to postpone that scenario for the time being.

My domain is: nextcloud.jahetken.net

I ran this command: sudo certbot --apache --dry-run certonly -d nextcloud.jahetken.net

It produced this output:
Domain: nextcloud.jahetken.net
Type: unauthorized
Detail: Invalid response from
https://nextcloud.jahetken.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/VnH3Drvb_yMWqGadwlMg5sdmPI2i6pQ1I0n57nzpyhw
[2001:984:e2cf:1:df84:6298:91b:80b0]: “\n\n404 Not
Found\n\n

Not Found

\n<p”

My web server is (include version): Apache 2.4.25

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Raspbian Stretch (Debian)

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: self

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): yes

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): no

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): 0.28.0

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Hi @masteryoda

first: Don't use ip addresses. Use *:80.

Second: Your ipv6 doesn't answer - https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=nextcloud.jahetken.net#url-checks

http / port 80 + ipv6 has only timeouts.

Do you have a correct Listen [::]:80 directive?

You need both listen - ipv4 and ipv6.

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Thanks! Changed vhosts to *:80 and *:443 respectively and I was able to renew the certificates.
I still see the timeouts on http. I don worry about that too much since I don’t want any port 80 access to the site. The port 80 vhost contains a Redirect permanent directive in that respect.

The core issue is solved, however. Certificate renewed and able to access the site.

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You may also want to upgrade your version of Certbot. It’s up to Certbot 0.36.0. Version 0.28.0 is a little outdated.

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