I am following this tutorial https://about.gitlab.com/2016/04/11/tutorial-securing-your-gitlab-pages-with-tls-and-letsencrypt/
Next step instructions are:
Make sure your web server displays the following content at
http://YOURDOMAIN.org/.well-known/acme-challenge/5TBu788fW0tQ5EOwZMdu1Gv3e9C33gxjV58hVtWTbDM
before continuing:
5TBu788fW0tQ5EOwZMdu1Gv3e9C33gxjV58hVtWTbDM.ewlbSYgvIxVOqiP1lD2zeDKWBGEZMRfO_4kJyLRP_4U
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# output omitted
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Press ENTER to continue
According to the tutorial, it's using Jekyll, but I don't use a static html generator like jekyll. The files are all static html. I created the exact path under root folder: /.well-known/acme-challenge/PukY0bbiH3nRfciQ4IzwTDIXFn4G5sZ5I-LkMz3-KHE.html
But after the piplines jobs are done, I am still getting 404. What's the problem here?
I had problem same yesterday and I found the solution, I hope it is not too late to share with you. According to this tutorial here, the "well-known" folder should be under the "public" folder.
And the letsencrypt need to access a .html file in the following path using the browser.
http://YOURDOMAIN.org/.well-known/acme-challenge/5TBu788fW0tQ5EOwZMdu1Gv3e9C33gxjV58hVtWTbDM
To do this, you must create the "index.html" file in the path below inside your gitlab repository.
public/.well-known/acme-challenge/5TBu788fW0tQ5EOwZMdu1Gv3e9C33gxjV58hVtWTbDM/index.html
In the "index.html" file you should put only the following sentence:
5TBu788fW0tQ5EOwZMdu1Gv3e9C33gxjV58hVtWTbDM.ewlbSYgvIxVOqiP1lD2zeDKWBGEZMRfO_4kJyLRP_4U
important: do not put any html tag, just the plain text above.
Then just continue following the tutorial. Good luck.
