Blog in a subpath / webfinger test fails #37

lapineige · 2019-03-07T08:50:08Z

My wordpress is installed in domain.tld/subpath.
When I try to test the webfinger part, it fails. With both [email protected] ("invalid content-type: text/html") and [email protected]/subdomain (<- this one gives me an encoding error "invalid URL escape "%2F"").

Is this plugin compatible with subpath ?

pfefferle · 2019-03-09T18:57:54Z

WebFinger does not support subdirectories, so you have to create a .htaccess file in your root and forward the request to your blog directory.

lapineige · 2019-03-11T06:32:59Z

And for Nginx ? What rule should I use ?

celesteh · 2019-04-24T13:41:32Z

WebFinger does not support subdirectories, so you have to create a .htaccess file in your root and forward the request to your blog directory.

This is the .htaccess file that worked for me. "blog" is the name of the subdirectory. You would need to use your own instead:

RedirectMatch "^\/\.well-known(.*)$" "\/blog\/\.well-known$1"

It would be super if this could be documented somewhere within the plugin, such as the faq

lapineige · 2019-04-30T10:51:11Z

How can I use that rule with Nginx ?

lapineige · 2019-05-06T08:34:35Z

I tried with rewrite ^/.well-known/ ^/subdirectory/.well-known/ last;.
It doesn't work. I have this error (using https://client.webfinger.net/lookup) invalid content-type: text/html.
And it tries to connect to : https://domain.tld/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3Ablog%40domain.tld

lapineige · 2019-05-06T08:49:50Z

I'm wondering : I tried to do that change in nginx config file for my wordpress, not for the root domain.
But I need to change the root domain, right ?
So when webfinger tries to access domain.tld/.well_known, it redirects to domain.tld/blog/.well_known ?

pfefferle · 2019-05-06T09:04:57Z

exactly!

lapineige · 2019-05-06T09:21:08Z

He doesn't work, same error, text/html content :(

lapineige · 2019-05-08T14:59:13Z

Ok I fixed this problem: I was due to Yunohost SSO, which were blocking any public access to this file.

Now the redirection is working.

Here is the solution:

location /.well-known/ {
        return 301 https://$server_name/YourSubFolder/$request_uri;
}

https://client.webfinger.net shows the json.

But I still can't see my blog from Mastodon.

pfefferle · 2019-05-08T15:58:31Z

Can you give me your identifier?

lapineige · 2019-05-08T16:00:03Z

Search for [removed]

pfefferle · 2019-05-08T16:47:51Z

Two things:

You are redirecting your profile URLs https://lapineige.fr/wp/blog/author/lapineige/ to the main URL, but they are required for ActivityPub! Perhaps you use YoastSEO?
I am not sure if mastodon supports http redirects

lapineige · 2019-05-08T17:23:14Z

You are redirecting your profile URLs https://lapineige.fr/wp/blog/author/lapineige/ to the main URL, but they are required for ActivityPub! Perhaps you use YoastSEO?

Uh… that's not on purpose… No I don't use this plugin.

I am not sure if mastodon supports http redirects

It works for Nextcloud.

pfefferle · 2019-05-08T20:06:49Z

But what/who is redirecting your profile pages?

lapineige · 2019-05-09T21:39:19Z

I don't know…

lapineige · 2019-05-16T15:52:23Z

Ok I found the plugin (NinjaFirewall) that was changing the default behaviour.

But now the WebFinger tool gives me a 403 forbidden (as before my rewrite).
But if I try to connect to the URL it tries to reach, the redirection is working…

pfefferle · 2019-05-16T16:07:24Z

Can you try to refresh the permalinks of your blog? go to the permalinks page and simply press the save button... you do not have to change anything...

lapineige · 2019-05-16T16:14:27Z

Done, same result.

lapineige · 2019-05-18T12:14:12Z

So here is the current status: the redirect works on the browser. With curl, it shows a 301. With curl -L it follows the redirect and I have a 403.

lapineige · 2019-06-05T08:46:30Z

Ok, in fact a wordpress upgrade changed my nginx config (I use it with Yunohost).
I fixed that.
It works 🙂 - even if I can't see the blog posts (the number is correct on the profile) but I guess it needs time to federate.

Problem solved, thanks a lot 🎉

celesteh · 2019-06-05T12:50:50Z

Hi, I appreciate that you don't want to keep issues open when the solution is known, but has this actually been documented any place else but in these issues?

I'd do a pull request, but it doesn't seem like the README is the best location and other help files are not immediately obvious.

lapineige · 2019-06-05T15:45:29Z

Well I didn't want to spam again @pfefferle with my problems ^^

I don't know where to put this, I'm actually writing a blog post (in French) to talk about this plugin, but my problem was kind of specific and I don't know if it's a good idea to explain the solutions in a place where it's hard to find, while here in the issues it's kind of easier to found it.

pfefferle · 2019-06-05T15:49:34Z

If you can also write an English version I can add it to the faq section of the readme...

lapineige · 2019-06-06T06:50:45Z

That's an idea… I will see if I have some time to do it, then I'll give you the link :)

lapineige · 2020-04-28T16:57:27Z

After sometimes, I discovered that my nginx config changed, and I'm not sure I kept the previous one.

I tried to reconfigure it, with

location /.well-known/ {
        return 301 https://$server_name/subfolder/$request_uri;
}

But it doesn't work from Mastodon and https://webfinger.net/lookup/ gives me this:

Error getting JRD: 400 Bad Request

A curl https://domain.tld/.well-known gives a 301 Moved Permanently, which is normal (it should redirect to https://domain.tld/subfolder/.well-known).
But a curl -L https://domain.tld/.well-known/ gives a 404, a curl -L https://domain.tld/.well-known/webfinger a :

{"code":"rest_missing_callback_param","message":"Missing parameter: resource","data":{"status":400,"params":["resource"]}

And curl -L https://domain.tld/subfolder/blog/author/pseudo/ a :

{"code":"activitypub_unsupported_resource","message":"Resource is invalid","data":{"status":400}}

I'm lost, I don't remember which URL I should test, and how to configure Nginx…

pfefferle · 2020-04-28T17:09:09Z

The URL you have to check is https://domain.tld/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected]

pfefferle · 2020-04-28T17:10:08Z

{"code":"rest_missing_callback_param","message":"Missing parameter: resource","data":{"status":400,"params":["resource"]}

This error is correct! It says, that your rewrite seems to work, but you pass no resource param.

pfefferle · 2020-04-28T17:11:00Z

Here a working example: https://notiz.blog/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected]

lapineige · 2020-04-28T17:13:45Z

https://webfinger.net/lookup/?resource=https%3A%2F%2Fnotiz.blog%2F.well-known%2Fwebfinger%3Fresource%3Dacct%3Apfefferle%40notiz.blog 404 not found 😅

edit: curl gives the right result

lapineige · 2020-04-28T17:15:54Z

For my domain, I have a 400 bad request and {"code":"activitypub_unsupported_resource","message":"Resource is invalid","data":{"status":400}}

lapineige · 2020-04-28T17:23:08Z

If I try with an article from my wordpress (the last one, that doesn't appear on mastodon): 422 Validation failed : text can't be blank

lapineige · 2020-04-28T17:38:51Z

Ok now instead of using https://$server_name/YourSubFolder/$request_uri; (YunoHost-Apps/wordpress_ynh#61 (comment)) I replaced $server_name with the actual domain.tld, and now https://domain.tld/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected] works.
But I can't see my article on mastodon.

pfefferle · 2020-04-28T18:01:44Z

Can you post some real URLs, so I can check them?

pfefferle · 2020-04-28T18:08:59Z

Is it the URL from your GitHub profile? If so, it does return the JSON response but without content.

Request:

curl "https://lapineige.fr/wp/blog/2020/04/retour-dexperience-sur-le-format-dimage-webp-un-excellent-rapport-qualite-poids/" \
     -H 'Accept: application/activity+json'

Response:

{
  "@context": [
    "https:\/\/www.w3.org\/ns\/activitystreams",
    "https:\/\/w3id.org\/security\/v1",
    {
      "manuallyApprovesFollowers": "as:manuallyApprovesFollowers",
      "PropertyValue": "schema:PropertyValue",
      "schema": "http:\/\/schema.org#",
      "value": "schema:value"
    }
  ],
  "id": "https:\/\/lapineige.fr\/wp\/blog\/2020\/04\/retour-dexperience-sur-le-format-dimage-webp-un-excellent-rapport-qualite-poids\/",
  "type": "Note",
  "published": "2020-04-28T16:15:58Z",
  "attributedTo": "https:\/\/lapineige.fr\/wp\/blog\/author\/lapineige\/",
  "summary": null,
  "inReplyTo": null,
  "content": null,
  "contentMap": {
    "fr": null
  },
  "to": [
    "https:\/\/www.w3.org\/ns\/activitystreams#Public"
  ],
  "cc": [
    "https:\/\/www.w3.org\/ns\/activitystreams#Public"
  ],
  "attachment": [],
  "tag": []
}

Do you use a pagebuilder or a multi language plugin?

lapineige · 2020-04-28T18:41:55Z

Thank you.
I don't think I use any pagebuilder, and I don't use a multi-language plugin…
It was working a few months ago, I didn't test it in the mid-time…

pfefferle · 2020-04-28T18:59:57Z

Hmmm... I just tested it with my site and it seems to work properly:

curl "https://notiz.blog/2020/03/15/i-am-a-human-of-wordpress/" \
     -H 'Accept: application/activity+json'

Also when I search for the URL on mastodon.

lapineige · 2020-04-28T19:05:43Z

It works for me too from Mastodon.

EditorsKit and Stackable, that I used to add more blocks, are not in the pagebuilder category, right ?

lapineige · 2020-04-28T19:09:33Z

Ooooook that's super weird: I tried to change Activity-Object-Type (I changed a random parameter), saved it, then disabled an enabled again the extension, and while curl still fails, I can see it with the URL on Mastodon…
And I have the tittle and a link, which is the format I always wanted… but couldn't have for some reason.

Thanks a lot for your help :)

pfefferle · 2020-04-28T19:15:49Z

😊

lapineige mentioned this issue May 6, 2019

Using Activitypub plugin: how to configure the redirection ? YunoHost-Apps/wordpress_ynh#61

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lapineige closed this as completed Jun 5, 2019

pfefferle mentioned this issue Nov 1, 2022

I cannot see my profile or post in Mastodon #163

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Blog in a subpath / webfinger test fails #37

Blog in a subpath / webfinger test fails #37

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