Run ktistec on a subdomain

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Run ktistec on a subdomain

sean-clayton opened this issue a year ago · comments

Is ktistec made to run on a subdomain, but "live" on the domain name? Like how microblog.pub does it. Eg, running on ktistec.example.com but posts and such appear as example.com?

Microblog lets you basically use nginx to do a 301 redirect from all /.well-known/webfinger on the desired domain name (example.com) requests and in its config it lets you tell microblog that it 'lives' on example.com instead of ktistec.example.com with this configuration:

webfinger_domain = "domain.tld"

Todd Sundsted · Answer 1 · Tue Dec 12 2023 02:41:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@sean-clayton i don't think so, although i admit that i don't understand the use case. does microblog.pub act like a general purpose webfinger server for the domain then?

Sean Clayton · Answer 2 · Tue Dec 12 2023 02:48:01 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@sean-clayton i don't think so, although i admit that i don't understand the use case. does microblog.pub act like a general purpose webfinger server for the domain then?

Pretty much. I believe this is more of a "vanity" thing where your ActivityPub posts look 'nice' with just user@example.com showing instead of user@subdomain.example.com.

This blog post shows another example (using mastodon, though).