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Is it possible to change lemmy's domain?
(random-hero.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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You can, but other servers will not recognize it as the same server.
There are however ways to run your server on a subdomain and make it appear as if it's still the original domain. Is that what you're looking for?
That might fit my needs. Could you explain in more details please?
/well-known/webfinger. If you use a reverse proxy on your main domain (example.com), you have it forward traffic from
example.com/well-known/webfingertosubdomain.example.com/well-known/webfingerIs renaming the instance domain without reinstalling Lemmy related to changing the WebFinger query? It's the trick some instances use to have a different instance domain from their username domain, like @user@domain.com while the instance is mastodon.domain.com.
Yes, that was what I was referring to. However, this is assuming that Lemmy has properly implemented webfinger and doesn't store direct links (which I haven't checked).
Alternatively, you could proxy all requests with
application/activity+jsonin theAcceptorContent-typeheaders.Do you mean make it look like the top level domain? Cause if so, do you have a link I can read a little about? I'm thinking of deploying my own lemmy instance.
It's possible by having the webfinger endpoints at the "root" while keeping the rest of Lemmy on a subdomain. The main thing that determines the domain in your username is webfinger.
No clue if Lemmy or kbin support this config though, but quite a bit of the microblog-only parts of fedi do, and it's a widely used thing.
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