Remote Category Add Fails with “Not Found” (both forums AP-enabled)

[kadir-ay-0@community.nodebb.org]

Both forums have ActivityPub enabled. Permissions: Guests + Fediverse actors = View. When attempting to add the category as a Remote Category, I encounter the error below. Could you advise what I’m missing?

[sky2023245@community.nodebb.org]

I'm having the same problem. I can't create a remote category.

[kadir-ay-0@community.nodebb.org]

I can add ActivityPubs from a NodeBB forum, but I can’t add them from my other forum. My forums are running versions 4.5.1 and 4.6. What could be the reason for this?

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

Kadir-Ay-0 Sky2023245 both forums can't find each other?

Can they find @activitypub@community.nodebb.org ?

[sky2023245@community.nodebb.org]

julian If I enter the handle and then 1 under category, the error message "Not Found" doesn't appear. The input mask closes, but no category is created. I've already gotten that far today with my blog's handle.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

Sky2023245 the fields are either or. The category ID is used if populated, otherwise the handle is looked up.

[sky2023245@community.nodebb.org]

julian Okay, I understand.

Edit: It seems to be working now, but not with the handle, but with the full blog URL. If that's correct, the title of the input field might be a bit misleading. I'm curious to see if blog posts will now be federated.

[kadir-ay-0@community.nodebb.org]

julian

julian said in Remote Category Add Fails with “Not Found” (both forums AP-enabled):
> Kadir-Ay-0 Sky2023245 both forums can't find each other?
>
> Can they find @activitypub@community.nodebb.org ?

Yes, exactly — I can’t get the two forums to discover each other. They both detect the ActivityPub endpoint, but they cannot find each other as remote instances.
Also, when I try to post a test topic from my NodeBB forum into my own ActivityPub instance, the topic does not appear on my local forum.

[kadir-ay-0@community.nodebb.org]

Sky2023245 And something strange happened — earlier, I managed to add a category from one forum to the other, but I had manually set the ID to 1. It worked that time. Later, I deleted it and tried to add it again, but since the previous posts didn’t show up, I removed everything. Now, it doesn’t accept the same action anymore and refuses to add it again.

[sky2023245@community.nodebb.org]

Kadir-Ay-0 said in Remote Category Add Fails with “Not Found” (both forums AP-enabled):
> Sky2023245 And something strange happened — earlier, I managed to add a category from one forum to the other, but I had manually set the ID to 1. It worked that time. Later, I deleted it and tried to add it again, but since the previous posts didn’t show up, I removed everything. Now, it doesn’t accept the same action anymore and refuses to add it again.

This is all very mysterious. Unfortunately, I have no idea about the deeper subject matter and therefore can't figure out a solution on my own. I just added a category from this forum to my forum, and it worked without any problems. I don't know yet whether it will federate the topics. I was able to add my blog now (at least it's displayed as a category), but it doesn't seem to be federated.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

Kadir-Ay-0 what do you mean by "set the ID to 1"?

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

Sky2023245 adding the remote category does not guarantee that you will receive updates. At least one user from your forum needs to follow the other category as well.

[kadir-ay-0@community.nodebb.org]

julian Let me explain it like this: Normally, I can add ActivityPub in this way — I just enter the handle and it gets added directly. But when I try to add a handle from my own forum, I get a “not found” error.

Then I went ahead and entered a “1” in the Category ID field, which is normally empty. It was added successfully after that. I deleted it and tried the same process again, but this time it didn’t get added. I changed the Category ID to something like “3”, and then it didn’t give a “not found” error, but nothing showed up either.

If the Category ID field is left empty, it gives an error.

[kadir-ay-0@community.nodebb.org]

julian I discovered something else that might help solve the problem:

When I send a follow request from my own forum to the other forum's user, it says “request pending,” and the request notification never reaches the other side.

However, when I send a follow request to the same user from the official NodeBB forum, the request is successfully delivered and is automatically accepted.

So I think I’m doing something wrong somewhere, but I can’t figure out what it is.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

Kadir-Ay-0 can you let me know your config.json please.

[kadir-ay-0@community.nodebb.org]

julian

{
    "url": "https://forum.ieu.app",
    "secret": "************************",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": "4567",
    "mongo": {
        "host": "mongo",
        "port": "27017",
        "username": "***********,
        "password": "***********",
        "database": "**********",
        "uri": ""
    }
}

We are using docker I censored it

[kadir-ay-0@community.nodebb.org]

julian I discovered that the issue on the other forum was caused by http://yasaruni.com
, so I immediately switched it to https. Now, I can see and follow users on https://forum.ieu.app
, but I’m having trouble adding categories between users. Even when a user follows a specific category, it doesn’t appear in the World search — for example, the handle testfcategory@forum.ieu.app
doesn’t show up. What could be the reason for this? Also, all permissions for the Fediverse are enabled on both instances.

[lilygray7665@community.nodebb.org]

Kadir-Ay-0 I cannot reveived email verification thats why problems are similer..

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

Kadir-Ay-0 said in Remote Category Add Fails with “Not Found” (both forums AP-enabled):
> Even when a user follows a specific category, it doesn’t appear in the World search

How was the user follow established if you can't find the category in /world?