Certbot not creating acme-challenge folder

The problem was the nginx configuration.I replaced my long configuration files with the simplest config possible:

server {    listen 80;    server_name domain.com www.domain.com git.domain.com;    root /var/www/domain/;}

Then I was able to issue new certificates.

The problem with my long configuration files was (as far as I can tell) that I had the these lines:

location ~ /.well-known {    allow all;}

But they should be:

location ~ /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {    allow all;}

Now the renewal works, too.

I had a similar issue. My problem was, that I had this rule:

 location ~ /\. {    access_log off;    log_not_found off;    deny all; }

these lines where canceling every acces to any directory starting with a "." (point)

For some strange reason (I think the certbot script changed in some way), I was not able in any way to renew the certificates. I found this thread that finally helped me after almost 4 hours of research:

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/solved-invalid-response-403-forbidden/64170/13

hope it helps somebody else.

The trick is to add this in the apache config :

DocumentRoot /var/lib/letsencrypt/http_challenges    <Directory /var/lib/letsencrypt/http_challenges>            Allow from All    </Directory>

Hope it works for someone else!