# The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary nginx configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure the listed domains point to this nginx server and that it is accessible from the internet **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [July 25, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-certificate-authority-failed-to-verify-the-temporary-nginx-configuration-changes-made-by-certbot-ensure-the-listed-domains-point-to-this-nginx-server-and-that-it-is-accessible-from-the-internet/181806 "2022-07-25T20:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gabriel09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Gabriel09](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Gabriel09)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-certificate-authority-failed-to-verify-the-temporary-nginx-configuration-changes-made-by-certbot-ensure-the-listed-domains-point-to-this-nginx-server-and-that-it-is-accessible-from-the-internet/181806/1 "2022-07-25T20:00:27Z")
I´m having problems creating a SSL certificate. My domain is: sgm-tenergy.com.mx I ran this command: sudo certbot --nginx It produced this output: Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log Please enter the domain name(s) you would like on your certificate (comma and/or space separated) (Enter 'c' to cancel): sgm-tenergy.com.mx Requesting a certificate for sgm-tenergy.com.mx Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: nginx). The Certificate Authority reported these problems: Domain: sgm-tenergy.com.mx Type: unauthorized Detail: 200.92.196.82: Invalid response from [http://sgm-tenergy.com.mx/.well-known/acme-challenge/wItuGBvf3MZCOOqPn8RpmAFj1ZoHi6BvifACL9FQbqI:](http://sgm-tenergy.com.mx/.well-known/acme-challenge/wItuGBvf3MZCOOqPn8RpmAFj1ZoHi6BvifACL9FQbqI:) 404 Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary nginx configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure the listed domains point to this nginx server and that it is accessible from the internet. My web server is (include version): Ubuntu 20.04 The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):Ubuntu My hosting provider, if applicable, is: I don't have 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): certbot 1.29.0 ---
**Author:** ![Bruce5051](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/bruce5051/32/76576_2.png) [@Bruce5051](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Bruce5051)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-certificate-authority-failed-to-verify-the-temporary-nginx-configuration-changes-made-by-certbot-ensure-the-listed-domains-point-to-this-nginx-server-and-that-it-is-accessible-from-the-internet/181806/2 "2022-07-25T20:07:59Z")
Hi @Gabriel09 , and welcome to the LE community forum 🙂 Using this tool [Redirect Checker | Check your Statuscode 301 vs 302](https://www.redirect-checker.org/index.php) with the domain you supplied I get: . . . . ### Result [http://sgm-tenergy.com.mx](http://sgm-tenergy.com.mx) **302 Found** /login/?next=/ **200 OK** ### Problems found: - **You use a 302 redirect**. This means, that the actually content is temporary not reachable and will come back soon. To use a 302 redirection for generally moved pages is a bad idea. Search engine bot might not follow it or handle it as temporary. For SEO this is also a bad idea, because no link juice will be transferred to the linked page. ---
**Author:** ![rg305](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/rg305/32/91314_2.png) [@rg305](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/rg305)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-certificate-authority-failed-to-verify-the-temporary-nginx-configuration-changes-made-by-certbot-ensure-the-listed-domains-point-to-this-nginx-server-and-that-it-is-accessible-from-the-internet/181806/3 "2022-07-25T20:24:17Z")
> [@Gabriel09](#): > > My web server is (include version): Ubuntu 20.04 What web server are you using? > [@Gabriel09](#): > > sudo certbot --nginx `Certbot` will try using `nginx` as the web server But I don't see `nginx` responding: ```nohighlight curl -Ii http://sgm-tenergy.com.mx/.well-known/acme-challenge/Test_File-1234 HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 20:24:01 GMT Server: WSGIServer/0.2 CPython/3.8.10 Content-Type: text/html X-Frame-Options: DENY Content-Length: 14736 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Referrer-Policy: same-origin ``` ---
**Author:** ![Bruce5051](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/bruce5051/32/76576_2.png) [@Bruce5051](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Bruce5051)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-certificate-authority-failed-to-verify-the-temporary-nginx-configuration-changes-made-by-certbot-ensure-the-listed-domains-point-to-this-nginx-server-and-that-it-is-accessible-from-the-internet/181806/4 "2022-07-25T20:31:18Z")
> [@rg305](#): > > `Server: WSGIServer/0.2 CPython/3.8.10` I also looks like your WSGIServer may not be up-to-date Here [Client Challenge](https://pypi.org/project/WSGIserver/) shows WSGIserver 1.3, but maybe I found the wrong one. ---
**Author:** ![Gabriel09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Gabriel09](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Gabriel09)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-certificate-authority-failed-to-verify-the-temporary-nginx-configuration-changes-made-by-certbot-ensure-the-listed-domains-point-to-this-nginx-server-and-that-it-is-accessible-from-the-internet/181806/5 "2022-07-25T20:32:48Z")
I'm using Django ---
**Author:** ![Gabriel09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Gabriel09](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Gabriel09)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-certificate-authority-failed-to-verify-the-temporary-nginx-configuration-changes-made-by-certbot-ensure-the-listed-domains-point-to-this-nginx-server-and-that-it-is-accessible-from-the-internet/181806/6 "2022-07-25T20:37:57Z")
do I need to update it? ---
**Author:** ![Bruce5051](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/bruce5051/32/76576_2.png) [@Bruce5051](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Bruce5051)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-certificate-authority-failed-to-verify-the-temporary-nginx-configuration-changes-made-by-certbot-ensure-the-listed-domains-point-to-this-nginx-server-and-that-it-is-accessible-from-the-internet/181806/7 "2022-07-25T20:49:48Z")
@Gabriel09 you might want to review some of these previous recent Django issues > [@Failed challenge Ubuntu 20, Apache 2, Django](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/failed-challenge-ubuntu-20-apache-2-django/144847): > > I… > [@Renewing my cert Nginx-Gunicorn-Django](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renewing-my-cert-nginx-gunicorn-django/181549): > > P… > [@Certbot - Unable to find corresponding HTTP vhost; Unable to create one as intended addresses conflict; Current configuration does not support automated redirection](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certbot-unable-to-find-corresponding-http-vhost-unable-to-create-one-as-intended-addresses-conflict-current-configuration-does-not-support-automated-redirection/179965): > > M… ---
**Author:** ![Gabriel09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Gabriel09](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Gabriel09)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-certificate-authority-failed-to-verify-the-temporary-nginx-configuration-changes-made-by-certbot-ensure-the-listed-domains-point-to-this-nginx-server-and-that-it-is-accessible-from-the-internet/181806/8 "2022-07-25T21:30:26Z")
I didn't find something that could help me ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-certificate-authority-failed-to-verify-the-temporary-nginx-configuration-changes-made-by-certbot-ensure-the-listed-domains-point-to-this-nginx-server-and-that-it-is-accessible-from-the-internet/181806/9 "2022-08-24T21:30:58Z")
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