Migrating an existing domain, SSL issues

jond1

I'm having an issue when migrating an existing domain in production, to a stand alone WordOps server.

The issue that is happening is that I can't create a LE cert because the domain is already live somewhere, so it can't communicate with the domain I'm adding. So when I create a HOSTS file entry (on Windows) to the new IP address, nginx is responding with 404 since it says SSL is not enabled so it's not listening for it on port 443

How might I resolve this?

jond1

Here is what I get

root@backend:/var# wo site update mydomain.com -le --force
Certificate type : domain
Validation mode : Webroot challenge
Issuing SSL cert with acme.sh [KO]
Your domain is properly configured but acme.sh was unable to issue certificate.
You can find more informations in /var/log/wo/wordops.log

VirtuBox

Hello jond1,
if your domain is not pointing to your server IP, acme.sh will not be able to issue a certificate with the webroot challenge validation mode.
You can use the DNS API validation in this case, to be able to issue your certificate, even if the domain is pointing to another server IP.

jond1

That worked! thank you

It would be useful to have that suggestion on the screen when throwing the error, to help other people resolve it more quickly 🙂 Thanks for such a great product