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I've been wrecking my brains out - the SSL did not renew - then the SSL was outdated - so I deleted all the SSL certificates from the server
I thought I'd get new fresh ones... but It won't renew
Please bear in mind I am not a coding person so please explain in laymans terms and I'll do my best to follow - Thanks in adavance.

My domain is: ahprinters.co.uk and ahprinters.com is parked in it, I also tried to get SSL for webmail.ahprinters.co.uk and .com for the first time (as I do need it for emails)

I ran this command: request certificate

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It produced this output:

Requesting a certificate for ahprinters.co.uk, www.ahprinters.co.uk, ahprinters.com, www.ahprinters.com, webmail.ahprinters.com, webmail.ahprinters.co.uk from Let's Encrypt ..
.. request failed : Web-based validation failed :
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer None
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
Requesting a certificate for ahprinters.co.uk and 5 more domains
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for ahprinters.co.uk
http-01 challenge for ahprinters.com
http-01 challenge for webmail.ahprinters.co.uk
http-01 challenge for webmail.ahprinters.com
http-01 challenge for www.ahprinters.co.uk
http-01 challenge for www.ahprinters.com
Using the webroot path /home/ahprinte/public_html for all unmatched domains.
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain ahprinters.co.uk
Challenge failed for domain ahprinters.com
Challenge failed for domain webmail.ahprinters.co.uk
Challenge failed for domain webmail.ahprinters.com
Challenge failed for domain www.ahprinters.co.uk
Challenge failed for domain www.ahprinters.com
http-01 challenge for ahprinters.co.uk
http-01 challenge for ahprinters.com
http-01 challenge for webmail.ahprinters.co.uk
http-01 challenge for webmail.ahprinters.com
http-01 challenge for www.ahprinters.co.uk
http-01 challenge for www.ahprinters.com
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.
IMPORTANT NOTES:

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My web server is (include version):
IP: 5.189.166.189
Webmin version 1.998
Virtualmin version 7.1
Operating system
CentOS Linux 7.9.2009

I can login to a root shell on my machine: I don't know

I am using Virtual Server in Webmin to manage

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): Don't see any Cretbot in my webmin or virtualmin

PLEASE HELP
Thanks
Regards
Pappaji

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Not sure if this applies but thought I would at least point it out Email feedback: TLS 1.0/1.1 deprecation and SHA-1 deprecation
and Rejecting SHA-1 CSRs and validation using TLS 1.0 / 1.1 URLs

Also a great place to start debugging Let's Encrypt certificates is Let's Debug

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I think something has changed since you last tried validation. In your post, it looks like Let's Encrypt tried to validate your site, connected, and got an HTTP 404. Now if I try to connect manually, I get a "connection refused." That means your site isn't running a web server at all. You'll need to have a webserver running to get a certificate.

$ curl ahprinters.com
curl: (7) Failed to connect to ahprinters.com port 80 after 279 ms: Connection refused
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However your site is pingable

$ ping ahprinters.co.uk
PING ahprinters.co.uk (5.189.166.189) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from vmi431722.contaboserver.net (5.189.166.189): icmp_seq=1 ttl=36 time=175 ms
64 bytes from vmi431722.contaboserver.net (5.189.166.189): icmp_seq=2 ttl=36 time=174 ms
64 bytes from vmi431722.contaboserver.net (5.189.166.189): icmp_seq=3 ttl=36 time=175 ms
64 bytes from vmi431722.contaboserver.net (5.189.166.189): icmp_seq=4 ttl=36 time=174 ms
64 bytes from vmi431722.contaboserver.net (5.189.166.189): icmp_seq=5 ttl=36 time=176 ms
^C
--- ahprinters.co.uk ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 173.838/174.636/175.527/0.592 ms
$ ping ahprinters.com
PING ahprinters.com (5.189.166.189) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from vmi431722.contaboserver.net (5.189.166.189): icmp_seq=1 ttl=36 time=175 ms
64 bytes from vmi431722.contaboserver.net (5.189.166.189): icmp_seq=2 ttl=36 time=174 ms
64 bytes from vmi431722.contaboserver.net (5.189.166.189): icmp_seq=3 ttl=36 time=174 ms
64 bytes from vmi431722.contaboserver.net (5.189.166.189): icmp_seq=4 ttl=36 time=174 ms
64 bytes from vmi431722.contaboserver.net (5.189.166.189): icmp_seq=5 ttl=36 time=174 ms
^C
--- ahprinters.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4007ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 173.803/174.249/175.145/0.491 ms
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