I can install and run pixelfed on a subdomain, for example, pixelfed.example.com. However, I also run mastodon.example.com. My webfinger points at mastodon. How do I configure a webfinger for both pixelfed and mastodon? How do you all have your webfingers setup when you run multiple activitypub-based services?

Edit: I should also add that I’m trying to tie my mastodon account to [email protected], not specific to the mastodon subdomain, but specific to my user email identity. My mastodon domain would be sometime like mastodon.domain.com, which would normally make my user [email protected].

I do see this as a potential solution - I could route the specific service based on user agent to the correct webfinger: https://serverfault.com/questions/775463/nginx-redirect-based-on-user-agent#825725

So here is the issue on github:

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3563

If folks have GitHub accounts, could you please bump this/thumbs up?

  • Chris@programming.devEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This doesn’t answer your exact question and I haven’t done this with webfingers, but I’ve done this with a reverse proxy like nginx (or traefik) and no special DNS tricks. Your example.com will point to 1.2.3.4 IP and then the subdomain routing is handled by the reverse proxy. I’ve had upwards of 8 different domains and subdomains all running on a single box taking advantage of docker containers.