https-portal: Doesn't work on http sites with basic-auth

Good Day @SteveLTN ,

I’m trying to redirect the site http://example.com (with basic-auth) to https://example.com but I keep on getting the following error:

u'error': {u'status': 403, u'type': u'urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized', u'detail': u'Invalid response from http://example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/

http://example.com requires basic authentication to pass through

I’m not really knowledgeable about Let’s Encrypt but is there a way to convert an already authenticated http site to https?

I tried your basic-auth before, something like: DOMAINS: 'foo:bar'@example.com -> http://example.com but throws this error HTPASSWD: cannot create file /var/lib/https-portal/example.com/production/htaccess