Is it possible to change lemmy’s domain after I have already started it once and produced some content? I am thinking of moving to a subdomain but I’m not sure if it will go smoothly
run your server on a subdomain and make it appear as if it’s still the original domain.
Do you mean make it look like the top level domain? Cause if so, do you have a link I can read a little about? I’m thinking of deploying my own lemmy instance.
It’s possible by having the webfinger endpoints at the “root” while keeping the rest of Lemmy on a subdomain. The main thing that determines the domain in your username is webfinger.
No clue if Lemmy or kbin support this config though, but quite a bit of the microblog-only parts of fedi do, and it’s a widely used thing.
Is renaming the instance domain without reinstalling Lemmy related to changing the WebFinger query? It’s the trick some instances use to have a different instance domain from their username domain, like @user@domain.com while the instance is mastodon.domain.com.
Yes, that was what I was referring to. However, this is assuming that Lemmy has properly implemented webfinger and doesn’t store direct links (which I haven’t checked).
Alternatively, you could proxy all requests with application/activity+json in the Accept or Content-type headers.
/well-known/webfinger. If you use a reverse proxy on your main domain (example.com), you have it forward traffic from example.com/well-known/webfinger to subdomain.example.com/well-known/webfinger
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !selfhosted@lemmy.world
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You can, but other servers will not recognize it as the same server.
There are however ways to run your server on a subdomain and make it appear as if it’s still the original domain. Is that what you’re looking for?
Do you mean make it look like the top level domain? Cause if so, do you have a link I can read a little about? I’m thinking of deploying my own lemmy instance.
It’s possible by having the webfinger endpoints at the “root” while keeping the rest of Lemmy on a subdomain. The main thing that determines the domain in your username is webfinger.
No clue if Lemmy or kbin support this config though, but quite a bit of the microblog-only parts of fedi do, and it’s a widely used thing.
Is renaming the instance domain without reinstalling Lemmy related to changing the WebFinger query? It’s the trick some instances use to have a different instance domain from their username domain, like @user@domain.com while the instance is mastodon.domain.com.
Yes, that was what I was referring to. However, this is assuming that Lemmy has properly implemented webfinger and doesn’t store direct links (which I haven’t checked).
Alternatively, you could proxy all requests with
application/activity+jsonin theAcceptorContent-typeheaders.That might fit my needs. Could you explain in more details please?
/well-known/webfinger. If you use a reverse proxy on your main domain (example.com), you have it forward traffic from
example.com/well-known/webfingertosubdomain.example.com/well-known/webfinger@remindme@mstdn.social