HTTP challenge redirected by hosting front end
Apache certbot fails because a hosting front end or router redirects the HTTP challenge path to the home page.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
7 public reports · first reported 11 October 2026 · last reported 11 October 2026
What's going wrong
A person self-hosting a site on a small board behind a hosting provider's front end runs certbot with Apache and gets a 404 on the challenge file.
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