💡 WebFinger Lookup
WebFinger (RFC7033)[1] allows to resolve names like alice@example.org to the
ActivityPub Actor Profile[2] or a human readable web page.
The http GET request to
https://example.org/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:alice@example.org must
respond with the proper JSON Resource Descriptor[3] document.
#Seppo! sets this up automatically for Apache webservers and one Webfinger address per domain.
Advanced setup
If you want multiple addresses on one domain (with a #Seppo! each),
- the addresses (
alice@example.org) must be distinct, - the
<webroot>/.well-known/webfinger/.htaccessmust dispatch accordingly.
This involves manual action, because #Seppo! never writes files outside it's directory (except updating the symlink below and only if it is in fact a symlink).
To achieve this, replace the symlink
<webroot>/.well-known/webfinger/.htaccess with the content of all the local
.well-known/webfinger/.htaccess files from each #Seppo! installation, e.g.:
$ cd <webroot>/.well-known/webfinger/
$ mv .htaccess .htaccess.bak
$ cat ../../*/.well-known/webfinger/.htaccess > .htaccess
The resulting <webroot>/.well-known/webfinger/.htaccess may look
something like this:
# https://seppo.social/S1002
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (?i)^(.+?&)?resource=acct:alice@(example\.com)$
RewriteRule ^$ https://%2/alice/.well-known/webfinger/index.jrd [qsdiscard,last,redirect=seeother]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (?i)^(.+?&)?resource=acct:bob@(.+)$
RewriteRule ^$ https://%2/bob/.well-known/webfinger/index.jrd [qsdiscard,last,redirect=seeother]
There are sample webserver configs in contrib/etc/
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