Bug Report: Cloudron does not support Ghost's ActivityPub/Federated Web Feature

[Sydney]

@scooke Yes, I can confirm that it's not an issue of not being able to follow people. As you can see from the screenshot in my original bug report, the routes simply do not work.

[bmann]

I think this is only for Ghost Pro at the moment. I have the same loading error. Interested to see when / if it is enabled for self hosters.

[jdaviescoates]

@bmann sounds like the intention is for it to ship with Ghost 6.0:

As shown at the top of https://ghost.org/help/social-web/

[jrl-abstract27]

now that we are on ghost 6.0 any updates ? it seems that
Cloudron does not currently support Ghost's ActivityPub/Federated Web Feature, as confirmed by bug reports showing that site admins can enable federation activity in their Ghost settings, but when Cloudron users turn it on, the site stops working due to .ghost/activitypub/ routes not being available
The core issue is that ActivityPub requires specific routes (/.ghost/activitypub/*, /.well-known/webfinger and /.well-known/nodeinfo) to be proxied to the ActivityPub service Serve federated apps from root domain | Cloudron Forum, but Cloudron's reverse proxy configuration doesn't know how to handle these routes yet.

[girish]

@jrl-abstract27 said in Bug Report: Cloudron does not support Ghost's ActivityPub/Federated Web Feature:

The core issue is that ActivityPub requires specific routes (/.ghost/activitypub/*, /.well-known/webfinger and /.well-known/nodeinfo) to be proxied to the ActivityPub service Serve federated apps from root domain | Cloudron Forum, but Cloudron's reverse proxy configuration doesn't know how to handle these routes yet.

I assume the set up has to be done wherever root domain is hosted (which could be in Cloudron or outside Cloudron)? If in Cloudron, you can set up the route inside the app. For example, if you have Surfer, just set up those routes to server whatever they need to serve.

[David 0]

I’m hoping to get some support for this feature on Cloudron soon. I’d love to use fediverse support on my Ghost-powered websites. I think it might be possible to have multiple Ghost instances running on the same server, but I’m not sure if there are any potential issues with that.

[axbom]

Just adding my voice to say that I'm keen for this to get up and running as well. The ActivityPub integration has been a long-awaited feature with Ghost 6.0, and it was a bit of an anti-climax to realise it's not working on the Cloudron app version yet.

[stormgrass]

Seconding the call for support. I'd love to get this up and running eventually.

[girish]

The latest package uses ap.ghost.org as the ActivityPub service. It has some service limits per https://docs.ghost.org/hosting#hosted-activitypub-usage-limits :

• Maximum 2,000 followers
• Maximum 2,000 following
• Maximum 100 interactions per day (interactions include posts/notes, replies, likes, and reposts)

@vladimir.d actually managed to get a selfhosted AP (ActivityPub) server working as well. But the AP server requires it's own database/redis, among other things. This makes quite a complicated setup. Maybe we will package AP as a separate app package (a single AP server can also handle multiple ghost instances).

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Bug Report: Cloudron does not support Ghost's ActivityPub/Federated Web Feature:

The latest package uses ap.ghost.org as the ActivityPub service.

Works!

@girish said in Bug Report: Cloudron does not support Ghost's ActivityPub/Federated Web Feature:

Maybe we will package AP as a separate app package

Sounds like a plan.