The Certificate Authority failed to verify the manually created challenge files. Ensure that you created these in the correct location

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My domain is:

I ran this command:
Create a file containing just this data:

1waapy_lefga2pvoE4ZaTzRxZhxGz7odK59NVVw8VLY.MNo0r1mJ5O_VWiq7W-C_s3mkjNkgcy-Ih8B_j4h3e7I

And make it available on your web server at this URL:

http://tonaly.ru/.well-known/acme-challenge/1waapy_lefga2pvoE4ZaTzRxZhxGz7odK59NVVw8VLY


Press Enter to Continue
It produced this output:
Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: manual). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: tonaly.ru
Type: unauthorized
Detail: 195.24.68.10: Invalid response from http://tonaly.ru/.well-known/acme-challenge/1waapy_lefga2pvoE4ZaTzRxZhxGz7odK59NVVw8VLY: 404

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the manually created challenge files. Ensure that you created these in the correct location.

Some challenges have failed.
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile C:\Certbot\log\letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

My web server is (include version):

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):
RU Center
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):certbot 1.24.0

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Welcome @RamilSI

This error says the Let's Encrypt server was not able to find that file (http error 404).

Can you show us the value of the root option in the nginx server block for tonaly.ru? You did not say what kind of server you had but I see from your server response headers it is openresty which is based on nginx.

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Is this running on a Windows system?

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