HTTP domain verification fails during certificate issue
Domain verification over HTTP keeps failing with 403 or mismatched challenge files, so no certificate gets issued.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 13 November 2021 · last reported 19 April 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners using this free SSL plugin report that the HTTP challenge check fails before any certificate is issued.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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