dns-persist-01 Manual

drag00n007

Hy,

I'm trying to setup the "dns-persist-01 Manual" Provider in Certwarten with Let's Encrypt.

I used this Doc und the How to on Let's Encrypt HP: https://www.certwarden.com/docs/user_interface/providers/dnspersist01_manual/

I also setup the needed TXT Record on our DNS Provider for Let's Encrypt as describted in the How to with our Let's Encrypt Account Information.

I tryed to get a Certificate via this provider and got an Error in the Logs:
7/14/2026, 1:30:21 PM, info, orders/fulfilling_do.go:227, orders: fulfilling worker 1: order 11 done
7/14/2026, 1:30:21 PM, error, orders/fulfilling_do.go:99, orders: fulfilling worker 1: fulfill auths error: challenges: error selecting challenge (challenge type not found in challenges array)
7/14/2026, 1:30:21 PM, error, authorizations/fulfiller.go:31, auths: failed to fulfill auth https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/<*****************> (challenges: error selecting challenge (challenge type not found in challenges array))
7/14/2026, 1:30:20 PM, info, orders/fulfilling_do.go:24, orders: fulfilling worker 1: ordering order id 11 (certificate name: TEST, subject: <FQDN>)

Any Ideas where I can look for the Error?

Kind Regards!

I'm currently using Certwarden 0.29.6 .

gregtwallace

Let's Encrypt doesn't support dns-persist-01 in production yet. If you set it up on their staging environment it should work.

If you enable debug logging, you'll see the dns-persist-01 challenge simply doesn't exist in their prod environment.

{
	"identifier": {
		"type": "dns",
		"value": "vm-smokeping.xxx"
	},
	"status": "pending",
	"expires": "2026-07-14T19:42:50Z",
	"challenges": [
		{
			"type": "tls-alpn-01",
			"url": "https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/chall/xxx",
			"status": "pending",
			"token": "Pc3RsoYnog817plFEWUsHQ-IdTtifXmK1szCRMJFznU"
		},
		{
			"type": "dns-01",
			"url": "https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/chall/xxx",
			"status": "pending",
			"token": "Pc3RsoYnog817plFEWUsHQ-IdTtifXmK1szCRMJFznU"
		},
		{
			"type": "http-01",
			"url": "https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/chall/xxx",
			"status": "pending",
			"token": "Pc3RsoYnog817plFEWUsHQ-IdTtifXmK1szCRMJFznU"
		}
	]
}

drag00n007

gregtwallace

Thank you for your fast reply! With the staging Account it worked immediately!