# Urn:acme:error:unauthorized Status 403

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/urnerror-unauthorized-status-403/80018>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 13, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/urnerror-unauthorized-status-403/80018 "2018-12-13T13:37:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![s15199d](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/s15199d/32/28172_2.png) [@s15199d](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/s15199d)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/urnerror-unauthorized-status-403/80018/1 "2018-12-13T13:37:49Z")

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My domain is: [www.liveatoaklandpark.com](http://www.liveatoaklandpark.com)

I ran this command: I always follow the wizard. N \> Single Binding \> Site ID 43

It produced this output:  
[INFO] Authorize identifier: [www.liveatoaklandpark.com](http://www.liveatoaklandpark.com)  
[INFO] Authorizing [www.liveatoaklandpark.com](http://www.liveatoaklandpark.com) using http-01 validation (SelfHosting)  
[INFO] Answer should now be browsable at [http://www.liveatoaklandpark.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/dApGuBHI6bLzdg37bgw9fW0NRZyG7VT2HKt0ZBbJarM](http://www.liveatoaklandpark.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/dApGuBHI6bLzdg37bgw9fW0NRZyG7VT2HKt0ZBbJarM)  
[EROR] Authorization result: invalid  
[EROR] ACME server reported:  
[EROR] [type] urn:acme:error:unauthorized  
[EROR] [detail] Invalid response from [http://www.liveatoaklandpark.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/dApGuBHI6bLzdg37bgw9fW0NRZyG7VT2HKt0ZBbJarM:](http://www.liveatoaklandpark.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/dApGuBHI6bLzdg37bgw9fW0NRZyG7VT2HKt0ZBbJarM:) “\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\<!–[if IE 7]\> \<h”  
[EROR] [status] 403  
[EROR] Create certificate failed

My web server is (include version): Win Server 2016 Standard IIS v10.0

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

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: n/a

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

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**Author:** ![s15199d](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/s15199d/32/28172_2.png) [@s15199d](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/s15199d)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/urnerror-unauthorized-status-403/80018/2 "2018-12-13T13:58:48Z")

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I saw on another similar reported error on this site that you suggested manually creating /.well-known/acme-challenge/test.txt and seeing if you could browse too it. I ran that test and I was able to browse to test.txt

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**Author:** ![JuergenAuer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/juergenauer/32/26491_2.png) [@JuergenAuer](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/JuergenAuer)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/urnerror-unauthorized-status-403/80018/3 "2018-12-13T14:55:37Z")

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Hi @s15199d

> [@s15199d](#):
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> /.well-known/acme-challenge/test.txt

check it with the file (file name 1234). Because the validation file has no extension.

With Windows, there is a mimetype required.

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**Author:** ![s15199d](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/s15199d/32/28172_2.png) [@s15199d](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/s15199d)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/urnerror-unauthorized-status-403/80018/4 "2018-12-13T15:44:45Z")

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Unrelated to this issue, this website/domain has been transferred to a new owner. So, the issue is no longer relevant. @JuergenAuer thank you for your response!

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/urnerror-unauthorized-status-403/80018/5 "2019-01-12T15:44:48Z")

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