Unable to install new/additional certificates

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My domain is: screamfreely.org

I ran this command: certbot --nginx -d screamfreely.org -d www.screamfreely.org

It produced this output:

Cleaning up challenges
2018/02/14 13:22:57 [notice] 31221#31221: signal process started
Failed authorization procedure. screamfreely.org (tls-sni-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Incorrect validation certificate for tls-sni-01 challenge. Requested e0150b6cbb6acee21427da9a137988ca.7820065cd789be9d817bfa9130388018.acme.invalid from [2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:febb:adc4]:443. Received 2 certificate(s), first certificate had names "api.mnactivist.org, mnactivist.org, www.mnactivist.org", www.screamfreely.org (tls-sni-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Incorrect validation certificate for tls-sni-01 challenge. Requested 867237698a1a1ddac87fb8c1319998de.d150fe36bcd7ad2fb04083d40ccc40be.acme.invalid from [2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:febb:adc4]:443. Received 2 certificate(s), first certificate had names "api.mnactivist.org, mnactivist.org, www.mnactivist.org"
 
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The following errors were reported by the server:
 
   Domain: screamfreely.org
   Type:   unauthorized
   Detail: Incorrect validation certificate for tls-sni-01 challenge.
   Requested
   e0150b6cbb6acee21427da9a137988ca.7820065cd789be9d817bfa9130388018.acme.invalid
   from [2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:febb:adc4]:443. Received 2
   certificate(s), first certificate had names "api.mnactivist.org,
   mnactivist.org, www.mnactivist.org"
 
   Domain: www.screamfreely.org
   Type:   unauthorized
   Detail: Incorrect validation certificate for tls-sni-01 challenge.
   Requested
   867237698a1a1ddac87fb8c1319998de.d150fe36bcd7ad2fb04083d40ccc40be.acme.invalid
   from [2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:febb:adc4]:443. Received 2
   certificate(s), first certificate had names "api.mnactivist.org,
   mnactivist.org, www.mnactivist.org"
 
   To fix these errors, please make sure that your domain name was
   entered correctly and the DNS A/AAAA record(s) for that domain
   contain(s) the right IP address.

When I run this command: certbot certonly --cert-name mnactivist.org -d api.mnactivist.org -d www.mnactivist.org -d screamfreely.org -d www.screamfreely.org -d mnactivist.org

For which I get the following response:

Performing the following challenges:
tls-sni-01 challenge for api.mnactivist.org
tls-sni-01 challenge for www.mnactivist.org
tls-sni-01 challenge for screamfreely.org
tls-sni-01 challenge for www.screamfreely.org
tls-sni-01 challenge for mnactivist.org
2018/02/14 13:23:24 [notice] 31337#31337: signal process started
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
2018/02/14 13:23:29 [notice] 31413#31413: signal process started
Failed authorization procedure. screamfreely.org (tls-sni-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Incorrect validation certificate for tls-sni-01 challenge. Requested 5a1688e79d0db5338b99a6e843ba16bf.538d8b41d1a4de7f36ff4c9d4d863ffd.acme.invalid from [2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:febb:adc4]:443. Received 1 certificate(s), first certificate had names "16d4fe750dc0cb58f223ea38a4aef25d.da278aa5b5d8b910ad23ea4c3c48c853.acme.invalid, dummy", www.screamfreely.org (tls-sni-01): urn:acme:error:unauthorized :: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Incorrect validation certificate for tls-sni-01 challenge. Requested dd9a7602a4faf15fef40d7f4f15fc4d9.b2fa776135f9987a9bc14deec98a6b92.acme.invalid from [2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:febb:adc4]:443. Received 1 certificate(s), first certificate had names "16d4fe750dc0cb58f223ea38a4aef25d.da278aa5b5d8b910ad23ea4c3c48c853.acme.invalid, dummy"
 
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The following errors were reported by the server:
 
   Domain: screamfreely.org
   Type:   unauthorized
   Detail: Incorrect validation certificate for tls-sni-01 challenge.
   Requested
   5a1688e79d0db5338b99a6e843ba16bf.538d8b41d1a4de7f36ff4c9d4d863ffd.acme.invalid
   from [2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:febb:adc4]:443. Received 1
   certificate(s), first certificate had names
   "16d4fe750dc0cb58f223ea38a4aef25d.da278aa5b5d8b910ad23ea4c3c48c853.acme.invalid,
   dummy"
 
   Domain: www.screamfreely.org
   Type:   unauthorized
   Detail: Incorrect validation certificate for tls-sni-01 challenge.
   Requested
   dd9a7602a4faf15fef40d7f4f15fc4d9.b2fa776135f9987a9bc14deec98a6b92.acme.invalid
   from [2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:febb:adc4]:443. Received 1
   certificate(s), first certificate had names
   "16d4fe750dc0cb58f223ea38a4aef25d.da278aa5b5d8b910ad23ea4c3c48c853.acme.invalid,
   dummy"
 
   To fix these errors, please make sure that your domain name was
   entered correctly and the DNS A/AAAA record(s) for that domain
   contain(s) the right IP address.

I did use the following command: certbot certonly --webroot -d screamfreely.org -d www.screamfreely.org

This seemed to work – but upon visiting the site, throws and error and says the cert is assigned to api.mnactivist.org …?

I’m incredibly confused, and would appreciate any insight or direction available. Thank you.

My web server is (include version): nginx

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Arch Linux (fully up-to-date)

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Linode

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

Well, certbot certonly only obtains the certificate but doesn’t attempt to install it.

Since --webroot seems to be working, you might try:

certbot -a webroot -i nginx -d screamfreely.org -d www.screamfreely.org

to use the webroot authenticator together with the nginx installer.

Thank you! That worked!

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