Support for Joomla or strange PHP-type sites?

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My site is a hosted site, running Joomla 3.x (latest release). It appears to me these certificate installation processes are very much geared to installation on a linux box running your Apache server locally.

I suspect there’s a good bit I don’t know about running a command line prompt at my hosting provider’s site, but is there a process for installation on a remotely hosted PHP type site like Joomla that is under third party control/hosting? If I’m just too clueless is there a step-by-step for those of us who haven’t got hundreds of hours and host our site as a necessary side-line not as Apache experts?

Appreciated,

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if you can place a file in /.well-known/acme-challenge/ directory you can try manual authentificator
file must be returned in text-plain mime (can fiddle with .htaccess)

But you still will need to reconfigure apache on host to make use of certificate (or get tech support to reconf it)

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Thank you for the reply,
I could manually create such a folder, but it doesn’t exist in the standard Joomla site file structure. Are you saying I should manually create it?