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

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My domain is: www.theweereview.com

I ran this command: sudo certbot renew

It produced this output:


Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/theweereview.com.conf


Renewing an existing certificate for theweereview.com and www.theweereview.com

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: nginx). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: www.theweereview.com
Type: unauthorized
Detail: 2a03:b0c0:1:d0::beb:1: Invalid response from http://www.theweereview.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/Fhnr6JRpRrzqHmZjtYGmwrgQVhcmrcaVN3SmRxwDTck: 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.

Failed to renew certificate theweereview.com with error: Some challenges have failed.


The following certificates are not due for renewal yet:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/theweereview.com-0001/fullchain.pem expires on 2023-06-15 (skipped)
All renewals failed. The following certificates could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/theweereview.com/fullchain.pem (failure)


1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

My web server is (include version): nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)

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

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Digital Ocean

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): 2.4.0

That is an IPv6 address in the error message. You have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in your DNS but the IPv6 seems wrong. It returns a different result to HTTP request than your IPv4 address.

Make sure that is the correct IPv6 address or remove it from your DNS

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