# I cannot follow my blog if I use it as the subdomain of my Mastodon server

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/i-cannot-follow-my-blog-if-i-use-it-as-the-subdomain-of-my-mastodon-server/7764>\
**Category:** WriteFreely\
**Tags:** troubleshooting, writefreely\
**Created:** [January 7, 2023, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/i-cannot-follow-my-blog-if-i-use-it-as-the-subdomain-of-my-mastodon-server/7764 "2023-01-07T09:35:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/i-cannot-follow-my-blog-if-i-use-it-as-the-subdomain-of-my-mastodon-server/7764/3 "2023-01-08T08:28:08Z")

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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:  
 ![image](https://discuss.write.as/uploads/default/original/2X/1/198fc5a5921ef9bceb7075064206274df93fd799.png)  
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:

 ![image](https://discuss.write.as/uploads/default/original/2X/7/72cc095a4ec166aad301ba4a02073cd34630ea1f.png)

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](https://discuss.write.as/t/unable-to-follow-from-mastodon-apache-reverse-proxy/7347/3).

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.

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