Is it possible to change lemmy’s domain after I have already started it once and produced some content? I am thinking of moving to a subdomain but I’m not sure if it will go smoothly

  • koper@feddit.nlEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    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?

      • stown@sedd.itEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        /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/webfinger to subdomain.example.com/well-known/webfinger

    • baduhai@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      run your server on a subdomain and make it appear as if it’s still the original domain.

      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.

      • koper@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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+json in the Accept or Content-type headers.