I’m making progress on my new WordPress site. You can see earlier posts in the series here, here & here. One problem I’m continuing to tackle is getting all the ActivityPub & IndieWeb & WordPress bits talking. I found that one needs to remove author profiles from caching.
I received this error:
Your author URL {…} does not return valid JSON for application/activity+json. Please check if your hosting supports alternate Accept headers.
I found a support page that hinted at the answer: Author page json not in expected place | WordPress.org Here is how I interpreted the post into a solution.
In one’s WordPress admin console, go to Settings – WP Super Cache. Under Advanced, scroll down to the Accepted Filenames & Rejected URIs section. Select Author Pages (is_author) and click the Save Settings button.
Then, in one’s Cloudflare admin console, go to your domain’s settings. Under Caching – Cache Rules, create a rule with a Custom filter expression:
- Field
- URI Full
- Operator
- Wildcard
- Value
https://example.com/author/*(changeexample.comto your domain)
The Expression Preview should look like (http.request.full_uri wildcard "https://plrj.org/author/*") 👈 that is my actual entry.
Then, under Cache eligibility, select Bypass cache. Leave all the other settings alone. Click Save.
Back in one’s WordPress admin console, go to Tools – Site Health. The Your author URL {…} does not return valid JSON for application/activity+json. Please check if your hosting supports alternate Accept headers. error should be gone.
Now I’m on to fixing Bridgy Fed’s error 403.