Can't view my Wordpress federated post

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

julian said in Can't view my Wordpress federated post:
> Can you try something for me... Can you restart NodeBB, and then search the direct post ID instead? (The one displayed in the log snippet you sent)
>
> 0
>

Okay, I did a "Restart & Rebuild" and then searched for the URL with the ID, but I still can't find the federated post:

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

The only thing that happened, and I'm saying this to try and find the problem, is that I changed the nameservers to try using a CDN for a few days, then put the original nameservers back on September 7th.

Since I put the original nameservers back, there have been these ActivityPub errors (but I hadn't touched any NodeBB settings, the only thing that changed were the nameservers, which have now been back to original for a few days).

It's as if the ActivityPub plugin has "gotten stuck."

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

ska that is just a coincidence

baris added the additional logging at the same time

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

julian said in Can't view my Wordpress federated post:
> ska that is just a coincidence
>
> baris added the additional logging at the same time

Great, I figured it was a coincidence (damn them!) but I wanted to say it so as not to leave out any potential clues!

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

ska Unfortunately I can't seem to reproduce the issue on my test instances (here and one other). The URL does seem to load fine.

Are you able to SSH into your forum server? Can you run curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" https://www.lealternative.net/?p=63326 and tell me what shows up?

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

julian sure.

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better formatted:

{
    "@context": [
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
        {
            "Hashtag": "as:Hashtag",
            "sensitive": "as:sensitive",
            "dcterms": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
        }
    ],
    "id": "https://www.lealternative.net/?p=63326",
    "type": "Note",
    "attachment": [
        {
            "type": "Image",
            "url": "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cassandra-old-1024x576.jpg",
            "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
            "name": "Cassandra Crossing"
        },
        {
            "type": "Image",
            "url": "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1__ROhgDY5d2F0xnYunkuAkw.webp",
            "mediaType": "image/webp"
        }
    ],
    "attributedTo": "https://www.lealternative.net/?author=4",
    "content": "<h2>Dall’archivio di Cassandra/ Generazioni</h2><p>Cosa \u00e8 successo ai tanti che si battevano per le libert\u00e0 digitali? Breve excursus sulla storia della difesa della rete e su come tutto stia cambiando. Lasciando molte macerie sulla via.</p><p><a href="\&quot;https://www.lealternative.net/2025/09/08/dallarchivio-di-cassandra-generazioni/\&quot;" class="\&quot;status-link">https://www.lealternative.net/2025/09/08/dallarchivio-di-cassandra-generazioni/</a></p>",
    "context": "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/63326/context",
    "contentMap": {
        "it": "<h2>Dall’archivio di Cassandra/ Generazioni</h2><p>Cosa \u00e8 successo ai tanti che si battevano per le libert\u00e0 digitali? Breve excursus sulla storia della difesa della rete e su come tutto stia cambiando. Lasciando molte macerie sulla via.</p><p><a href="\&quot;https://www.lealternative.net/2025/09/08/dallarchivio-di-cassandra-generazioni/\&quot;" class="\&quot;status-link">https://www.lealternative.net/2025/09/08/dallarchivio-di-cassandra-generazioni/</a></p>"
    },
    "icon": {
        "type": "Image",
        "url": "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cassandra-old-150x150.jpg",
        "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
        "name": "Cassandra Crossing"
    },
    "image": {
        "type": "Image",
        "url": "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cassandra-old-1024x576.jpg",
        "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
        "name": "Cassandra Crossing"
    },
    "published": "2025-09-08T06:55:00Z",
    "tag": [
        {
            "type": "Mention",
            "href": "https://feddit.it/c/lealternative",
            "name": "[lealternative@feddit.it](https://community.nodebb.org/category/lealternative@feddit.it)"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://www.lealternative.net/2025/09/08/dallarchivio-di-cassandra-generazioni/",
    "to": [
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
    ],
    "cc": [
        "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/4/followers",
        "https://feddit.it/c/lealternative"
    ],
    "mediaType": "text/html",
    "replies": {
        "id": "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/63326/replies",
        "type": "Collection",
        "first": {
            "id": "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/63326/replies?page=1",
            "type": "CollectionPage",
            "partOf": "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/63326/replies",
            "items": []
        }
    },
    "likes": {
        "id": "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/63326/likes",
        "type": "Collection",
        "totalItems": 2
    },
    "shares": {
        "id": "https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/63326/shares",
        "type": "Collection",
        "totalItems": 3
    }
}

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

julian anyway 63326 it shows up to me on my NodeBB.

This does not work: https://www.lealternative.net/?p=64428

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[julian@community.nodebb.org]

ska Are you able to restart NodeBB without using the regular buttons from the ACP... just by stopping the service from the command line and restarting?

Then perhaps the locks will clear.

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

julian sure, done a

./nodebb stop

and

./nodebb start

but searching for https://www.lealternative.net/?p=64428 always gives me "no results".

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

ska I added some logic changes to better handle the locks... can you update to the latest version on the develop branch, and run NodeBB using ./nodebb dev?

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

julian said in Can't view my Wordpress federated post:
> ska I added some logic changes to better handle the locks... can you update to the latest version on the develop branch, and run NodeBB using ./nodebb dev?

yes with latest dev seems works normally

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

this is what i got on shell when i search a wordpress post (that does not work on stable version) but now it works:

2025-09-11T14:44:01.289Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://www.lealternative.net/2025/09/10/abbiamo-provato-la-vpn-a-pagamento-di-duckduckgo/
2025-09-11T14:44:01.549Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Starting signature verification...
2025-09-11T14:44:01.551Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Retrieving pubkey for https://babka.social/users/Michael54_#main-key
2025-09-11T14:44:01.553Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://babka.social/users/Michael54_#main-key
2025-09-11T14:44:01.993Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/get] Received 404 when querying https://babka.social/users/Michael54_#main-key
2025-09-11T14:44:01.993Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/get] Error received: Not Found
2025-09-11T14:44:01.993Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/verify]   Failed, key retrieval or verification failure.
2025-09-11T14:44:01.993Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [middleware/activitypub] HTTP signature verification failed.
2025-09-11T14:44:02.243Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://www.lealternative.net/?p=63789
2025-09-11T14:44:02.726Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/63789/context
2025-09-11T14:44:02.975Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/context] Retrieving context/page https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/63789/context
2025-09-11T14:44:02.975Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/context] Retrieved https://www.lealternative.net/?p=63789
2025-09-11T14:44:02.975Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/context] Parsing https://www.lealternative.net/?p=63789
2025-09-11T14:44:02.982Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/mocks.post] Received image not identified as image due to MIME type: https://www.lealternative.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/duckduckgoprivacypro-1024x576.jpg
2025-09-11T14:44:02.984Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/context] Found 1 items.
2025-09-11T14:44:02.990Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/actors] Asserting 2 actor(s)
2025-09-11T14:44:02.990Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/actors] Processing https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public
2025-09-11T14:44:02.990Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/actors] Processing https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/1/followers
2025-09-11T14:44:03.004Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public
2025-09-11T14:44:03.004Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/1/followers
2025-09-11T14:44:03.642Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub] Checking auto-categorization rules.
2025-09-11T14:44:03.648Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [notes/assert] 1 new note(s) found.
2025-09-11T14:44:03.757Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/notes.assert] Associating tid e5663ce5-d017-44e1-807f-2e5642c107fb with context https://www.lealternative.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/posts/63789/context
2025-09-11T14:44:03.779Z [4567/205061] - verbose: [activitypub/syncUserInboxes] Syncing tid e5663ce5-d017-44e1-807f-2e5642c107fb with 2 inboxes

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

ska ok great news thank you!

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

julian Just for completeness: some old Wordpress posts still aren't working. It's still better than before because, for example, the more recent ones are now visible, but it still seems worse to me than it was before v4.5.0.

2025-09-11T14:58:06.590Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://www.lealternative.net/2023/02/24/native-alpha/
2025-09-11T14:58:09.045Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://www.lealternative.net/2020/03/25/alternative-ad-android/
2025-09-11T14:58:17.600Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://www.lealternative.net/2020/10/13/giocare-a-tron-online/
2025-09-11T14:58:18.673Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Starting signature verification...
2025-09-11T14:58:18.674Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Retrieving pubkey for https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/tillku#main-key
2025-09-11T14:58:18.676Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/tillku#main-key
2025-09-11T14:58:19.415Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/get] Received 404 when querying https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/tillku#main-key
2025-09-11T14:58:19.416Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/get] Error received: Not Found
2025-09-11T14:58:19.416Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/verify]   Failed, key retrieval or verification failure.
2025-09-11T14:58:19.416Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [middleware/activitypub] HTTP signature verification failed.
2025-09-11T14:58:33.567Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://www.lealternative.net/2020/08/11/giocare-ad-asteroids/
2025-09-11T14:59:10.865Z [4567/205275] - verbose: [activitypub/get] https://www.lealternative.net/2022/04/01/connecman/

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

ska which one doesn't work?

Does it work here?

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

julian said in Can't view my Wordpress federated post:
> ska which one doesn't work?
>
> Does it work here?

I'm still on the dev branch and almost all of them work, but not all. For example:

https://www.lealternative.net/2020/10/13/giocare-a-tron-online
https://www.lealternative.net/2020/03/25/alternative-ad-android/
https://www.lealternative.net/2023/02/24/native-alpha/

These don't work.

In the logs, only the GET request is visible, but without the response.

Most of those that didn't work before now do, such as: https://www.lealternative.net/2025/09/10/abbiamo-provato-la-vpn-a-pagamento-di-duckduckgo/

Also, all Mastodon posts now seem to work, whereas many had problems before.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

Confirming at this time that at least the first URL shared does not get pulled in. Debugging.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

ska can you please check that those three posts are actually federated outwards?

The human-readable URLs don't contain the expected Link header to the ActivityPub resource.

e.g.

link: ; rel="friends-base-url"
link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/"
link: ; rel="alternate"; title="JSON"; type="application/json"
link: ; rel=shortlink

It does contain the shortlink, which I tried to pull with the appropriate Accept header, but was sent HTML in response.

Perhaps there is a toggle you can press to enable federation on those posts?

[ska@community.nodebb.org]

julian Oh, you're right. I never did it manually and they must have defederated for some reason.

Sorry, but I absolutely hadn't noticed this, so I'd say the problem with NodeBB is solved then