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

[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?

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

julian

In short, I have two forums: forum.ieu.app and yasaruni.com.
Users from both instances can discover and follow each other without any issue.
However, categories from one forum do not appear in the World search of the other — meaning users can’t find or follow remote categories, even though user federation works fine.