Following Blog Won't "Stick"

[derpypaws]

Hey there,

I've been trying different solutions to implement federated blogging for a friend's website on and off for over a year now, and while I'm closer than ever, I'm still having trouble. Using the Activitypub Wordpress plugin, I have the user show up on Mastodon, (@[email protected]), but I haven't gotten a follow request to take. I saw this issue on another thread and it eventually fixed itself, but in that case it took hours for a refresh to show that it hand't worked, but in my case a reload will immediately show that the follow wasn't accepted. This has been the case for weeks. I can see the account had picked up a couple of toots from before, but now it doesn't see any new ones.

Interestingly, the account did reflect a changed profile picture.

[xuv]

I believe this is related to this issue that I reported here on Mastodon: https://merveilles.town/web/statuses/104009265689733976

[witchy-one]

I have the same issue. I cannot follow my blog's account, it shows that I submitted a follow request and nothing further. I had the same issue on multiple Masto instances and one Pleroma instance.

Edit: I asked Masto friends of various instances to try following it, and it showed as a request for them also.

[pfefferle]

should be fixed with 0.10.1!

[mediaformat]

I’m still having this issue.

I attempt to follow ‘@[email protected]’ but on refresh it becomes a follow request.

Could it be the dash in the URL?

[pfefferle]

@mediaformat have you updated to the latest version? On which platform have you tested it (mastodon, pletome, ...)?

[xuv]

So. I’ve tested with 2 WP instances. And strangely, it’s only fixed on one of them. Weirdly, both WP setup are pretty similar. Both hosted on shared hosting at OVH.

1. @[email protected] Runs on WP 5.4.1 with WP-AP 0.10.1 When trying to follow from Mastodon, it shows "cancel follow request" after a refresh. And the follow request is never accepted. There is no "followers" listed on the WP admin page Followers (Fediverse)

2. @[email protected] Runs on WP 5.4.1 with WP-AP 0.10.1 Follow request work as expected. There are followers listed on the WP admin page Followers (Fediverse)

Not sure what I can do to debug this further. I’ve checked the Apache log but can’t seem to find anything.

[mediaformat]

@mediaformat have you updated to the latest version? On which platform have you tested it (mastodon, pletome, ...)?

WP 5.4.1 wordpress-activitypub 0.10.1

tested on mastodon.social

[mediaformat]

Following up from wordpress.org/support/topic/secure-mode-compatibility/

I've tested on a shared hosting setup, and finding a similar issue: @[email protected]

[ghost]

When I send a follow request I get the following PHP Warning: PHP Warning: Undefined variable $user_id in wp-content/plugins/activitypub/includes/rest/class-inbox.php on line 111 My follow request doesn't "stick" as well. Wordpress 5.8 on php 8.0

I tried to debug this a bit, it seems when sending a follow request, the function public static function handle_follow( $object, $user_id ) in /includes/rest/class-inbox.php is never entered.

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[ssweeny]

Hi, I'm seeing the same issue trying to follow my WP site from Fosstodon.

The address I'm trying to follow is @[email protected] I'm on Fosstodon which as of this comment is running Mastodon v4.0.2

One interesting finding: I turned on debugging on my WP site and tried to follow. It looks as if the "acceptance" message from WP has some issue as I get what I'm pretty sure is the response from Fosstodon with this message:

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:36:22 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: close
Server: Mastodon
X-Frame-Options: DENY
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 0
Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()
Vary: Accept
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Security-Policy: base-uri 'none'; default-src 'none'; frame-ancestors 'none'; font-src 'self' https://fosstodon.org; img-src '...
X-Request-Id: 93672c69-5b12-420b-8dbd-8f59a5cca188
X-Runtime: 0.407184
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains

Perhaps related, I also see in the log these messages:

REST request: /activitypub/1.0/blog/followers: [](Header Absent)
REST result: : {"code":"rest_no_route","message":"No route was found matching the URL and request method.","data":{"status":404}}(404) - [](User ID: 0)

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