Let's Encrypt Problem

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OS:Debian 8
Webmin>Webmin Configuration>SSL Encryption>Let’s Encrypt Certificate Request LOG

Requesting a new certificate for mywebsite.eu, using the website directory /home/mywebsite/public_html …
… request failed : Failed to request certificate :

Parsing account key…
Parsing CSR…
Registering account…
Already registered!
Verifying mywebsite.eu…
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/webmin/webmin/acme_tiny.py”, line 203, in
main(sys.argv[1:])
File “/usr/share/webmin/webmin/acme_tiny.py”, line 199, in main
signed_crt = get_crt(args.account_key, args.csr, args.acme_dir, log=LOGGER, CA=args.ca)
File “/usr/share/webmin/webmin/acme_tiny.py”, line 128, in get_crt
wellknown_path, wellknown_url))
ValueError: Wrote file to /home/mywebsite/public_html/.well-known/acme-challenge/flMD7qVNC2TT_bL5Nb6MOZLkqpKChSR9Dmrh6tNz04Q, but couldn’t download http://mywebsite.eu/.well-known/acme-challenge/flMD7qVNC2TT_bL5Nb6MOZLkqpKChSR9Dmrh6tNz04Q

Thanks

-Giulio

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Hi, if you already forcing mywebsite.eu to be served via https only with self signed cert then of course letsencrypt check against your domain will not work. it needs to be server without ssl first and once your letsencrypt is issued and installed then you can force website to be served via https.