Level 39
Can reach my website
With your DNS server
Not sure the DNS servers used by let's encrypt are updated ... wait some hours ...
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Mar 29, 2022
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Level 10
Can't generate SSL certificate at forge
Every time I want to generate a "Let's encrypt" certificate on forge I am getting
Please review your DNS configuration and ensure all domains specified for the certificate contain a DNS "A" record that points to your server's public IP address. Updated DNS records may take several hours to propagate across the Internet.
I changed my nameserver entries at my registrar as digital ocean states it. Can reach my website but I am not able to generate a ssl certificate.
Level 25
By default forge adds the www subdomain. Have you added this to the configuration, or removed it from the domain list when creating your certificate?
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Level 10
@aleahy Thanks for you answer but can't find such an option. I am under SSL -> Let's encrypt can't find something like that.
Level 25
@SmokeTM When you click on LetsEncrypt in forge, you get a textbox listing domains before you click "Obtain Certificate".
Any domains listed here need to point to your server
Level 10
What is interesting I only can access the www.site.com but not the site.com page? Someone knows whats wrong here? Maybe it has something to do with the SSL problem?
Level 39
I don't use forge, but where do you defined your domain and alias(es)? (like SelrverAlias in apche virtualhost)
It can be linke with your certificate pb if domain is not defined as name or alias.
Level 25
@SmokeTM I use digital ocean to manage the domain and I set it up this way:
site.com is an A record to the IP address of the server.
www.site.com is a CNAME record which is an alias for site.com
Then there are just the NS record servers for site.com
Level 39
Ok for the DNS, but I was speaking of the web server defintion.
Level 25
@sr57 Under forge, you're meant to define the root domain when you're creating the site. It can be updated under the Meta tab if required. www aliases are created automatically by forge.
If @smoketm is finding only www.site.com is working, maybe www.site.com was created as the root domain for the site in forge?
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