Challenge request failed for domain

  • Hi,

    I have an old certificate for this domain and it had been expired:

    https://gassihelden.de/

    Now I would like to renew the certificate within the wordpress plugin. But I get the following error message:

    Challenge request failed for domain gassihelden.de.

    Do you have any idea what I can do?

    Chekki

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  • I’m having the same issue. I re-created .htaccess to be default WordPress format and still have the issue. The directory /.well-known/ is 0755. Not sure where else too look for this setting.

    I figured out my issue, hope it helps someone. My site was redirecting (via two different methods) all traffic through https. I was getting certificate errors via https (still need to figure out what that’s about) so I think that’s what was preventing the challenge request from working correctly. After I disabled the https re-directing, it worked.

    Thread Starter Chekki

    (@chekki)

    Could you be more precise please?

    This are my entries for all my redirects:

    .htaccess:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://gassihelden.de/$1 [R=301,L]

    wp-config.php
    define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'https://gassihelden.de/wp-content' );

    My WordPress url settings:
    https://gassihelden.de
    https://gassihelden.de

    And I have set SSL in my Plesk panel for this domain.

    I have no idea why I get the challenge request and which redirect I should remove.
    Any idea?

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Chekki.
    • This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Chekki.
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