Windows 10 xampp fails no install certificate

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My domain is: vihda.gov.ar

I ran this command:certonly --standalone

It produced this output:Saving debug log to C:\Certbot\log\letsencrypt.log
Please enter the domain name(s) you would like on your certificate (comma and/or
space separated) (Enter 'c' to cancel): www.vihda.gov.ar
Requesting a certificate for www.vihda.gov.ar

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: standalone). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: www.vihda.gov.ar
Type: connection
Detail: 200.51.93.114: Fetching http://www.vihda.gov.ar/.well-known/acme-challenge/JIilSgUm-m-M14Kd0mwvjrl7Gf3LNkWz3QOzinBV1EE: Connection reset by peer

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to download the challenge files from the temporary standalone webserver started by Certbot on port 80. Ensure that the listed domains point to this machine and that it can accept inbound connections from the internet.

Some challenges have failed.
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile C:\Certbot\log\letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

My web server is (include version): xampp Apache2.4

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):Windows 10

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):2.8.0

Welcome to the community @fhinojal

The EFF discontinued support for Certbot on Windows about 6 months ago. You should not use it to setup new systems. Please review the below announcement which suggests alternative options

The easiest to use is probably Certify The Web: https://certifytheweb.com/

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For any ACME client that uses HTTP validation (which is usually the default method of domain validation) you need to open TCP port 80 both in Windows Firewall and at the network level (router/firewall, VM networking control panel etc).

The Certificate Authority (Let's Encrypt) will check your domain as it did in your example log using an http (not https) request and that initial http request must work from any country.

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