"Challenge self check failed for domain" – nginx problem?

Hi,

it looks like this is happening because your server is blocking requests to hidden directories (that start with a dot). You need to tweak your configuration to make sure that the .well-known directory is whitelisted.

A similar problem is discussed here: https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec/issues/221

Can you check your configuration and adjust that? And please make sure to give me a heads up afterwards, whether it works or not. ??

Hey Felix

I’ve tried (and googled!) a lot of these variations, none of them worked unfortunately ??

More details here: https://superuser.com/questions/1099926/lets-encrypt-digitalocean-nginx-wordpress-installation-getting-a-403 Do you have any other pointers I could look at?

The thing is unless the challenge file is actually missing, this seems to be a server issue unrelated to the plugin directly, especially since you get a 403 when trying to access the URL. Unfortunately I’m not a server expert, so I can’t help you here (I would if I could!).

Have you verified that there are files in that directory after trying to run the certificate generation process?

You’re right, sorry about that!

I think I solved it now, by doing it via EasyEngine…so far so good. Should we close this?

Okay, I’m glad to hear that! ??

Hi @ernesto50, would you share the solution?

Hey there!

I basically had EasyEngine installed already and then used this: https://easyengine.io/docs/lets-encrypt/ – fairly easy!

Unfortunately I am using Mercury Vagrant (HGV) Deployment Playbook and can’t use that solution.

But yeah, thanks! I might get some idea how to solve it too.