Hello! Firstly, nice blog app you have created! Very clean visual, and it’s awesome that it uses ActivityPub!
It was straightforward to install it (blog.eza.link) on the same server I am running a Mastodon instance (eza.link).
If I try to follow the blog, @everton137@blog.eza.link, from my unique account, @me@eza.link, it shows as if the request is pending. But when I try to follow it from another Mastodon account I have, @everton137@vivaldi.net, it works well, and I can see the new blog posts on my timeline and on the list of profiles I follow. I also asked some people that follow me to check, and they confirm that it’s possible to follow my WriteFreely blog.
Maybe I could add something to my Nginx configuration? At the moment, I am using the very same one provided in the installation instructions and the SSL certificate directives added by Certbot.
Hi @everton137 please let me know if you solve this - I suspect I have the same issue re hosting a Write Freely on a subdomain of a Fediverse account domain:
In my case, it’s on a Yuohost server - I have Pleroma installed on a primary domain, and Write Freely installed on a subdomain
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Hi, @foxyloxy. I haven’t had time to inspect my logs and try to find the reason I cannot follow from my own Mastodon instance. But I tried to do it now, and simply, I was able to follow my blog!
If I check the list of profiles I am following, now I can see my blog:
before I wasn’t and the status always returned to a pending request.
On the admin panel of Mastodon, it’s possible to check federation requests for a particular domain (Preferences → Moderation → Federation → enter your own domain), and it was always failing. Now I checked it and there is no failure:
I have made just one single change to my Nginx configuration by adding proxy_ssl_verify off; inside location /. I did this based on this Apache directive someone posted here.
Furthermore, I think I will need to delete my actual blog and start fresh. I started my instance with multiple blogs for testing purposes. I’ve changed WriteFreely settings to a single blog, but now it has two blogs. And if I send a post draft to the wrong blog, I just lose this blog post.
I am still not sure if I will use WriteFreely or try to set up a static blog solution using ActivityPub. I really liked WriteFreely, but maybe I want a solution where people can add comments (preferably with a profile on the Fediverse ; ).
P. S. I made a toot asking people to test if they can follow my blog. One person confirmed. Now I see there are 5 people following my (prototype) blog, but I cannot see on trivial ways who they are.
I tried to check the profiles following me by accessing the remoteusers table and I could see my 5 followers. One thing I noticed different when checking the remoteuserkeys is that my account @me@eza.link does not have a public key listed on this table. I will read Mastodon documentation about it and check if I need to do something on my own Mastodon server. Or if, by having the blog on a subdomain, it wasn’t possible to fetch the public key.
