When using a redirection to a new domain using rewrite
in my nginx config, I had issues with Let’s Encrypt not being able to verify the domain ownership when using certbot --nginx
.
My redirect statement was
location / { rewrite ^/$ https://newdomain.com permanent; rewrite ^/(.*)$ https://newdomain.com/$1 permanent; }
I was able to fix the issue by instead using this redirect statement:
location / { return 301 https://newdomain.com$request_uri; }
After using this, I was able to use certbot --nginx
without any issues.