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Added WebFinger support to my email address using one rewrite rule and one static file.
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[aaron@parecki.com www]$ cat .htaccess | |
RewriteEngine on | |
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} resource=acct:(.+) | |
RewriteRule ^\.well-known/webfinger /profile/%1? [L] | |
[aaron@parecki.com www]$ cat profile/aaron@parecki.com | |
{ | |
"subject": "acct:aaron@parecki.com", | |
"links": [ | |
{ | |
"rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/avatar", | |
"href": "http://aaronparecki.com/images/aaronpk.png" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page", | |
"href": "http://aaronparecki.com/" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"rel": "me", | |
"href": "http://aaronparecki.com/" | |
} | |
] | |
} | |
Should there be a file or folder called webfinger
in the .well-known
folder?
@sorenpeter asked:
Should there be a file or folder called
webfinger
in the.well-known
folder?
No, the RewriteCond
and RewriteRule
tells Apache, "when somebody asks for /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:SOMETHING
, instead serve them /profile/SOMETHING
". This then allows you to store static files in /profile/...
for each user account represented by webfinger and it pretty-much "just works".
If the rules are working properly, you'll never need an actual file at /.well-known/webfinger
.
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You need a / (unlike @aaronpk) because your RewriteBase is different. You should still have the \ to escape the ., i.e. you should use:
Otherwise the rule will match a small number of (probably harmless) spurious URLs, e.g. https://example.com/Awell-known/webfinger (note letter A): the . is a wildcard: escaping it means a literal dot.