Site missing from Explore and site that shouldn't be on Explore

Developer help Self-hosting
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Hey folks,

I have two problems, and I’ll drop them both here:

  1. I self-host https://www.spectralwebservices.com . It isn’t showing up in Explore. I’d love some advice on how to troubleshoot that. I’m running 6.8, have NginX and Cloudflare in front. Is there a redirect that I should be checking for Explore? The Explore toggle is on, the send site data toggle is on, the site is not private. It has never been private.

  2. I have a demo/test site on Ghost Pro. It’s in private mode and the Explore toggle is off. (demo.spectralwebservices.com). It is /still/ showing up in Explore, although the preview is just the private mode page. (It has been private and not private at various points in the past couple weeks, so we might be seeing a cached result.) Embarrassingly, it had client data (including the website name) at the point that it got cached, so the client now has a bogus listing next to their real one. How often does Explore update? Anything I can do to purge this entry?

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I would like to add a 3., instead of opening a separate thread:

  1. Are only sites on ap.ghost.org part of the Social Web Explore? I don’t see any of the sites running on Magic Pages there, which bears the question: what happens to self hosters who do not use the hosted AP endpoint, but the one of another managed hosting service or their own self hosted one (which is part of the official ghost-docker setup?
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Update: Apparently the problem with my main site is that it has the admin domain on a separate subdomain, and that isn’t supported for Explore.

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Hello,

I would also like to see if anyone has a solution as to why my website does not appear on explorer page ? The site is also not private ! It runs with docker. And the options are checked in the admin panel.

I mentioned it to @John on activityPub and he replied that My website was inaccessible? Witch I don’t understand how that could be as I have visitors everyday and I can see my website no problem. https://iamjp.fr

When I created this website I did make an import from another website that was listed on the explorer maybe that is the reason ?

PS : My admin domain is not in a subdomain :wink:

Any help would be appreciated.

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Wow, good to know. I have been waiting for months to see if Explore would ever bother to list our site. That’s unfortunate news seeing as the new Docker instructions recommend a separate domain :frowning:

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I replied to you on ActivityPub at the time - you were previously missing a redirect from www to your root domain IIRC

your site is already in explore:
(it doesn’t show a preview / much data - because you’re using a CSP)

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we don’t currently have any data from self-hosted AP servers, so we can’t display it :slight_smile: in future when we figure out a way to do that, it will show up too

Edit: This has been fixed - self-hosted AP servers are now included

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Got it. Would be nice to mention that somewhere. Right now it reads different (e.g. all Ghost sites having a common Explore overview).

I fully recognise that Ghost(Pro) will always be a first citizen for things like these, but given that the AP server is part of the ghost-docker setup, it would be great to find a solution here. Happy to help.

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Thanks for taking the time to answer ! great news ! I’m unaware of any CSP but since it works I don’t care :wink:

Thanks again !

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Fully agree with @jannis. I’m ready to help as well. With a little more documentation, and transparency on ActivityPub-related roadmap, we can propose some solutions to cover self-hosted instances. That would fit better of federated nature of ActivityPub implementation in Ghost.

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