# \[solved\] 1 domain issues, the other doesn't

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/solved-1-domain-issues-the-other-doesnt/44742>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 22, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/solved-1-domain-issues-the-other-doesnt/44742 "2017-10-22T23:35:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@lake](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lake)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/solved-1-domain-issues-the-other-doesnt/44742/1 "2017-10-22T23:35:07Z")

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Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. [https://crt.sh/?q=example.com](https://crt.sh/?q=example.com)), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.

My domain is: [nwbsf.com](http://nwbsf.com)

I ran this command: sudo certbot certonly --manual -d [nwbsf.com](http://nwbsf.com) -d [www.nwbsf.com](http://www.nwbsf.com)

It produced this output:

- The following errors were reported by the server:

My web server is (include version): Apache/2.2.29 (Unix)

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): macOS 10.8.5

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: N/A

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

I create the files as requested. One of them is:

[https://nwbsf.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/UExUGG1I8ujQx1\_ylQUrr0gDMIUtczfk6x7iplfgjEo](https://nwbsf.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/UExUGG1I8ujQx1_ylQUrr0gDMIUtczfk6x7iplfgjEo)

I have no problem accessing this file from the outside. Why do I get a verification error?

Also: why is there a missing slash in the error URL right before .well-known?

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**Author:** ![sahsanu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/sahsanu/32/89984_2.png) [@sahsanu](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/sahsanu)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/solved-1-domain-issues-the-other-doesnt/44742/2 "2017-10-22T23:58:24Z")

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Hi @lake,

> [@lake](#):
>
> Detail: Fetching  
> [https://nwbsf.com.well-known/acme-challenge/fnOd2hKLi9BZHat1kJ3IudCEGlA5-HeIeRp0RkJlicw:](https://nwbsf.com.well-known/acme-challenge/fnOd2hKLi9BZHat1kJ3IudCEGlA5-HeIeRp0RkJlicw:)  
> Error getting validation data

Pay attention to the url, there is no **/** after your domain so the domain Let's Encrypt tries to reach is `nwbsf.com.well-known` which obviously doesn't exist.

Just an example:

```
$ curl -IkL http://nwbsf.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/fnOd2hKLi9BZHat1kJ3IudCEGlA5-HeIeRp0RkJlicw
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 23:54:02 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.29 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.29 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_ssl/2.2.29 OpenSSL/0.9.8zg
Location: https://nwbsf.com.well-known/acme-challenge/fnOd2hKLi9BZHat1kJ3IudCEGlA5-HeIeRp0RkJlicw
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'nwbsf.com.well-known'

```

You have a Redirect or RewriteRule redirecting `http://nwbsf.com/whatever` to `https://nwbsf.comwhatever` so you missed the trail slash in your redirect directive.

Something like this:

` Redirect permanent / https://nwbsf.com`

and you need to add a trailing slash

` Redirect permanent / https://nwbsf.com/`

Review your conf or .htaccess files.

Cheers,  
sahsanu

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**Author:** ![lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@lake](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lake)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/solved-1-domain-issues-the-other-doesnt/44742/3 "2017-10-23T00:13:57Z")

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Don’t know whether to shoot myself or kiss you, but that was it. You rock @sahsanu !!

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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:** [November 22, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/solved-1-domain-issues-the-other-doesnt/44742/4 "2017-11-22T00:13:58Z")

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