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  • Thread Starter gridman

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    @rbairwell Thank you.

    I’ll run it past my hosting service, although I’ve heard elsewhere that HostMonster is unwilling to make Mod_Security changes so I may be at a wall.

    I’ll post back here when/if I hear anything. Holiday weekend here, so…

    Thread Starter gridman

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    There’s another thread here in the forums that seems different, but perhaps tangental. [Thread: Can#t connect from my friendica site]

    In it, @pfefferle used a couple of curl requests to see how a URL responded. I used this same test on mine just to see what type of response I got. I discovered a discrepancy between “curl” and a “curl -X “POST”” request of the same URL.

    In my case the two requests
    curl -X "POST" "https://lonelocust.com/author/eugene/" -H 'Accept: application/activity+json'

    and

    curl "https://lonelocust.com/author/eugene/" -H 'Accept: application/activity+json'

    The later returns json, but the former returns a Mod_Security error.
    <head><title>Not Acceptable!</title></head><body><h1>Not Acceptable!</h1><p>An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server. This error was generated by Mod_Security.</p></body></html>

    So I’m coming largely to the conclusion that, in my case, at least, this is a firewalling issue, and my host does not supply access to modsec, and I’m not really sure that error message is sufficiently detailed enough for me to go to them and ask for some form of exception – if they’d even do it.

    Thread Starter gridman

    (@gridman)

    @pfefferle Given @rbairwell ‘s fix and a few scattered other mentions of this problem I’ve seen online, it keeps sounding like it is a firewall/application firewall issue.

    Given that some of us do not have root access, and help desks at hosting companies can be notoriously lacking, is there any way this could be simplified for them?

    In other words, is the a concise description of what needs to be able to pass the firewall?

    Perhaps if we had done thing to hand them and say, “can you do this for me site, please?” they might be able to do something?

    Thread Starter gridman

    (@gridman)

    Sorry @opendna, still no followers, but thanks for checking.

    Thread Starter gridman

    (@gridman)

    Thanks, OpenDNA, that gave me a couple of things to look at; however, I have tried different WP users, two different WP installs, and two different fediverse servers, plus I have left some of the follow requests in place for days, with no different result.

    Thread Starter gridman

    (@gridman)

    I should add that looking in WordPress at Users -> Followers (Fediverse) shows “No items found”

    Thread Starter gridman

    (@gridman)

    I’ll mirror Simon’s information there. My host (HostMonster) is running at Apache 2.4.53, PHP 7.3.33, and mySQL 5.7.23-23

    If there’s anything specific info that will help, please let me know. I didn’t want to dump everything from sysinfo for obvious reasons in a public forum.

    Thinking back on the person in the previous thread that indicated that they resolved the problem by disabling a security plug-in, and based on your description of how it should work, it does sound like it might be some security block preventing the follow request from reaching the server/plugin.

    Could there be something in .htaccess or somewhere similar that might block such a request?

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