This site can’t be reached

After install Let’s Encrypt with Certbot, I can not visit my website, and get “This site can’t be reached. www.word.today took too long to respond.” Please help.

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My domain is: word.today

I ran this command:sudo certbot --authenticator webroot --installer nginx

It produced this output:Congratulations! You have successfully enabled https://word.today

My web server is (include version):nginx/1.10.1

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:Ubuntu 14.04.5

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):eyes:

Your server is not responding to connections on port 443/tcp.

Check your server’s firewall.

Hi! Since I’m at work I only could test with Safari-Browser on iOS:

https://www.word.today - does work for me but I got an certificate Error (cannot reproduce it since I accepted it).
Did you register the certificate only for word.today but not for www.word.today?

https://word.today - does not work for me and runs to timeout.
Did you configure the alias word.today (without www.) in your webserver? Is there a valid domain redirection for word.today without www. prefix?

Good catch - it is using Free Naked Domain Redirect on wwwizer.com , which explains why it does not listen on 443/tcp.

@vincentopensourcetai the redirect service does not support HTTPS so you will need to either go without SSL on the www-less domain, or stop using wwwizer.

I remove the wwwizer already.

However, I get “Your connection is not private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.word.today (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). Learn more
NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID”

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You will need to re-run the original certbot command you used, but include the correct domains you want on the certificate.

e.g for just the www one:

-d www.word.today

instead of:

-d word.today

Or if you want both (and you setup DNS for word.today without using wwwizer):

-d word.today -d www.word.today

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It works now, thank you very much.

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