Failed with Response code of 400 ...

[lalaw2k]

Failed in AcmeClient constructor with the following error text: "Response code of 400 contacting https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-acct with response of:\n{\n "type": "urn:ietf:params:acme:error:accountDoesNotExist",\n "detail": "No account exist... "

I used "openssl genrsa 4096 > account.key" to create the key then pass the full path to account.key as the first argument, followed by the domain name. The project is compiled in VS2019

Is there a step i'm missing? I thought acme-lw would create the new letsencrypt account. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[jmccl]

acme-lw does not create the account. That might be a good enhancement, but it doesn't do that right now. At the moment you need to have an valid account key before you use the library.
If you want to put in a pull request I'll certainly consider it

[jmccl]

I'll close as this seems to have been a question rather than an issue. Feel free to re-open or open another related issue, as you see fit.

[jmccl]

A change has been checked in to create the account.