# WildCard Error certbot **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [September 27, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wildcard-error-certbot/134647 "2020-09-27T11:03:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@lmery](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lmery)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wildcard-error-certbot/134647/1 "2020-09-27T11:03:40Z")
Hello I am trying to renew my wildcard certificate on the delegated zone \* .sio.lyceefulbert.fr I use the command certbot -d \* .sio.lyceefulbert.fr --manual --preferred-challenges dns certonly but certbot tries to generate me a certificate for one of my aliases namely my gitlab server. dns-01 challenge for [gitlab.sio.lyceefulbert.fr](http://gitlab.sio.lyceefulbert.fr) My order worked perfectly before, but I forgot an option to clarify that it is a wildard. cordially My domain is:sio.lyceefulbert.fr I ran this command:certbot -d \*.sio.lyceefulbert.fr --manual --preferred-challenges dns certonly It produced this output:dns-01 challenge for [gitlab.sio.lyceefulbert.fr](http://gitlab.sio.lyceefulbert.fr) My web server is (include version): Nginx The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Debian 9.5 ---
**Author:** ![\_az](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/22d042/32.png) [@\_az](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/_az)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wildcard-error-certbot/134647/2 "2020-09-27T11:24:55Z")
The only way I see that happening is if: - you had a file or directory named `gitlab.sio.lyceefulbert.fr` in your working directory, and - you didn't put quotes around `*.sio.lyceefulbert.fr` So maybe try: ``` certbot -d "*.sio.lyceefulbert.fr" --manual --preferred-challenges dns certonly ``` Otherwise, could you please post the contents of `/var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log`? ---
**Author:** ![lmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@lmery](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lmery)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wildcard-error-certbot/134647/3 "2020-09-27T12:59:37Z")
Hello Thank you very much, that fixed the problem. I was doing this command without the quotes until now and it had never been a problem. Thank you very much for your quick response Best regards ---
**Author:** ![Osiris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/839c29/32.png) [@Osiris](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Osiris)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wildcard-error-certbot/134647/4 "2020-09-27T13:32:06Z")
> [@lmery](#): > > I was doing this command without the quotes until now and it had never been a problem. That's because one almost never runs certbot in a directory where Bash can expand the wildcard. So when one actually _does_ walk into ~~Mordor~~ such a directory, one doesn't expect Bash to expand the wildcard and you'll run into this issue. Note: this is a Bash thing, not a certbot thing 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@lmery](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/lmery)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wildcard-error-certbot/134647/5 "2020-09-27T14:45:17Z")
Indeed I should not have made the command in a user directory .... Well done and thank you again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wildcard-error-certbot/134647/6 "2020-09-28T02:29:00Z")
> [@Osiris](#): > > So when one actually _does_ walk into ~~Mordor~~ such a directory, one doesn't expect Bash to expand the wildcard and you'll run into this issue. What a great way of putting it! ![4gi9g8](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/1/c/1cd4bc611ae3e31dbab17c1466bec45e1bd18bbd.jpeg) 😀 ---
**Author:** ![griffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/griffin/32/50204_2.png) [@griffin](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/griffin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wildcard-error-certbot/134647/7 "2020-09-28T03:56:00Z")
That's fantastic. 🤣 And here I am out of likes for awhile. ❤ This one goes into the handbook fo' sho'. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/wildcard-error-certbot/134647/8 "2020-10-28T03:56:14Z")
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