The Certificate Authority failed to download the temporary challenge files created by Certbot

[maxhasan882]

My domain is: dashboard.healthhouse.com.au

I ran this command: docker-compose -f build/docker-compose.yml run --rm certbot certonly --webroot --webroot-path /var/www/certbot/ -d dashboard.healthhouse.com.au

It produced this output:

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: webroot). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
  Domain: dashboard.healthhouse.com.au
  Type:   connection
  Detail: 54.206.69.172: Fetching http://dashboard.healthhouse.com.au/.well-known/acme-challenge/fCzby2poiLF6FiMphRrdh-t-aVymouJu-bc2372ZXCs: Connection refused

My web server is (include version): aws ec2 linux instance

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

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

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):

[rg305]

Hi @maxhasan882, and welcome to the LE community forum

I see two potential problems:

@maxhasan882

--webroot-path /var/www/certbot/

That is irregular and needs to be confirmed working.

@maxhasan882

Connection refused

In order to validate via HTTP authentication, you must have a site reachable via HTTP.