ActivityPub Troubles (Again, and out of nowhere).

  • Using:
    WordPress 6.3.2
    ActivityPub 1.0.10
    GreenGeeks Hosting

    General Experience with ActivityPub Plugin:
    Lots of experimentation to get ActivityPub to federate posts. Works for a week at most, then everything breaks except for Mastodon Author Profile posts despite no changes being made to website.

    I’m currently flying on limited power using the solution provided here.

    Current Behavior of ActivityPub Plugin:

    • Author Profile posts to Mastodon.
    • Author Profile does not post to Pixelfed (using fresh attachment image uploads).
    • Blog Profile is created & searchable. Mastodon & Pixelfed.
    • Blog Profile does not boost posts. Profile always appears empty. Boosts do not appear on Author Posts.
    • ActivityPub posts nothing, nada, zip to Pixelfed.

    Observation # 1:

    ActivityPub > Activation > No creation of /.well-known/webfinger occurs.

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    Resulting Webfinger Test. ActivityPub Plugin Activated. WordPress Installed in Root Folder. Zero other plugins active. No caching.

    Observation #2:

    • Manually creating directory and file /.well-known/webfinger, but leaving webfinger contents empty (with hope that ActivityPub might populate the webfinger’s contents)
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    Result of empty, manually created file: webfinger. ActivityPub cannot populate a manually created webfinger.

    Observation #3:

    • Directing browser to root-url.com/activitypub.
    • Result: No ActivityPub JSON found. Page 404.

    Observation #4:

    • Directing browser to url.com/main-blog-index/activitypub.
    • ActivityPub JSON Found.????
    • Copy/Pasting displayed json value into /.well-known/webfinger.
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    Result of Copy/Pasting ActivityPub JSON from Blog Index Page into /.well-known/webfinger/

    Observation #5:

    • Directing browser to url.com/author/author-archive/activitypub.
    • ActivityPub JSON Found.????
    • Copy/Pasting displayed json value into /.well-known/webfinger.
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    Result of Copy/Pasting ActivityPub JSON from Author Archive Page into /.well-known/webfinger/

    Observation #6

    • Following your advice from this post works only for the specified author.
    • WordPress > Tools > Site Health : Webfinger is inaccessible.
    • Output: No Blog Profile. Only Author Profile. No Pixelfed. Only Mastodon.

    For one glorious week, I had everything: Author profile posts, Blog Profile boosts, Pixelfed posts for Author Pages (Though, come to think of it, never Pixelfed Blog boosts/favoriting).

    Nothing changed. Everything stopped working – except for Mastodon Author Pages.

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    If you were to recommend beginning afresh with ActivityPub to enjoy all of its features – what steps would you say to follow?

    I’ve tried all of the many possibilities outlined above and I’ve exhausted my options. Help is very much needed.

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  • Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle

    (@pfefferle)

    @xizor there might be one last possibility: create an index.php file in the WebFinger folder that redirects/proxies all requests with params to the WebFinger API endpoint.

    Thread Starter MindCreatesMeaning

    (@xizor)

    Hello @pfefferle ,

    I return with amazing news to be shared with anyone suffering from webfinger issues as I have outlined above.

    This article solved everything for me. Requires adding two lines to the site’s .htaccess file.

    Perhaps future versions of ActivityPub Plugin might be able to account for this and make the additions to .htaccess upon activation or a button representing Admin action(?).

    Thread Starter MindCreatesMeaning

    (@xizor)

    RESOLVED??!
    (See above post.)

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