Re: [webmin-l] I couldn’t get Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for two of my domains in Virtualmin

[Turritopsis D. T. En M. <teo...@pr...>]

On Sunday, 15 February 2026 at 3:44 PM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via webadmin-list <web...@li...> wrote:

> Subject: I couldn’t get Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for two of my domains in Virtualmin
> 
> Good day from Singapore,
> 
> I had registered the following 4 domain names on 5 Jan 2026 Monday.
> 
> [01] https://www.whois.com/whois/turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.website
> 
> [02] https://www.whois.com/whois/turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.space
> 
> [03] https://www.whois.com/whois/turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.site
> 
> [04] https://www.whois.com/whois/turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.store
> 
> Let's Encrypt issued SSL certificates for the first 2 domain names but failed to issue SSL certificates for the bottom 2 domain names.
> 
> May I know what is wrong? How do I rectify this issue?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
> Extremely Democratic People's Republic of Singapore
> 15 Feb 2026 Sunday 3.39 pm Singapore Time

Let's Encrypt errors:

Web-based validation failed :

Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Requesting a certificate for turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.site and 4 more domains
An unexpected error occurred:
too many failed authorizations (5) for "www.turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.site" in the last 1h0m0s, retry after 2026-01-05 14:34:32 UTC: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/#authorization-failures-per-hostname-per-account
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

DNS-based validation failed :

Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Requesting a certificate for turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.site and 4 more domains
An unexpected error occurred:
too many failed authorizations (5) for "www.turritopsis-dohrnii-teo-en-ming.site" in the last 1h0m0s, retry after 2026-01-05 14:34:33 UTC: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/#authorization-failures-per-hostname-per-account
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

I have already requested another Let's Encrypt SSL certificate for my 3rd and 4th domain names in Virtualmin.

Problem solved.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Extremely Democratic People's Republic of Singapore
15 Feb 2026 Sunday 5.21 pm Singapore Time