My domain name is hosted at my webhosting company.
For one sub domain in the DNS I changed the A address to my own IP address at home.
On that IP address I want to set up a website on my server in house using Let’s Encrypt.
Where do I need to request for the Let’s Encrypt certificate?
I tried it on my in house server, but that failed:
Please enter your domain name(s) (space-separated): my.domain.net
Attempting to obtain certificates... error running certbot:
Saving debug log to /var/snap/nextcloud/current/certs/certbot/logs/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer None
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for my.domain.net
Using the webroot path /var/snap/nextcloud/current/certs/certbot for all unmatched domains.
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain my.domain.net
http-01 challenge for my.domain.net
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- The following errors were reported by the server:
Domain: my.domain.net
Type: connection
Detail: Fetching
http://my.domain.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/wJas..........:
Error getting validation data
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. Additionally, please check that
your computer has a publicly routable IP address and that no
firewalls are preventing the server from communicating with the
client. If you're using the webroot plugin, you should also verify
that you are serving files from the webroot path you provided.
So I think I have set up Let’s Encrypt at my webhosting company. Is that correct?
Kind regards,
Guido van Harten