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Dineshan
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May 17, 2021

Failure creating certificate acme challenge 404 error in BIG-IP F5 WAF

We have more than 600 government websites behind the BIG-IP system. We have done almost 60% of certificates created and offloaded. Suddenly we couldn't create any certificate and got the below error. This error not only for one website. Now we can't renew or create a new certificate.

We use fanceg/letsencrypt -in GitHub to integrates Let's Encrypt with BigIP ( GitHub - fanceg/letsencrypt-bigip).

 

INFO: Using main config file /etc/dehydrated/configProcessing verugal.ds.gov.lk

 

Can anyone help me out with this issue? Are there any process changes or updates in letsencrypt site or BIG-IP intigrations? Due to this lots of government websites affected!

  • For such issues like "of government websites affected!" also raise a TAC case as this is a comunity website that does not have SLA.

     

     

    404 error could be related to lest encrypt issue not F5, check the the forums:

     

     

    https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/404-not-found-when-creating-certificate/93743

     

     

    https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cant-generate-cert-404-not-found/104184/2

     

     

     

     

    Also lets encrypt has limits as it is a free service and maybe not the best for government websites:

     

     

    https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/