[Owncloud] Extended webfinger app

[Florian Hülsmann]

Hi Arthur,

thanks, yes, I'm gonna fix this as soon as possible!

Cheers,

Florian

Am 12.04.2012 17:35, schrieb Arthur Schiwon:
> Hey,
>
> On 04/03/2012 12:38 AM, Florian Hülsmann wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've recently been working on reimplementing the webfinger protocol for
>> ownCloud, so other apps than the remoteStorage plugin can also use it.
>> For instructions on how to use webfinger from your app, see the
>> /apps/user_webfinger/webfinger.php file. I first thought of something
>> like OC_Webfinger::register(), but unfortunately that not possible
>> because the OC_Webfinger class must be in classpath before running all
>> the appinfo/app.php scripts :-/
>>
>> I also made the need of a symlink to the .well-known folder obsolete by
>> creating a static "host-meta" file during installation (see
>> appinfo/install.php). To make this accessible by pure javascript apps,
>> the install.php also creates a static .htaccess file which sets some
>> additional headers, so to make use of this it's now recommended that you
>> have the apache mod_headers activated.
>
> I experience an issue here. I put up a fresh owncloud (git master),
> proceeded the installation, finally ending in an error from the
> webfinger app instead of the first login mask:
>
> "Could not open /var/www/.well-known/host-meta for writing, please check
> permissions!"
>
> ownCloud lies in /var/www/owncloud-master/
>
> /var/www/ belongs by default to root.
>
> Cheers
> Arthur
>
>>
>> If you're pulling from master to update, please reinstall the webfinger
>> app by deleting the .well-known symlink in your document root and
>> calling owncloud/apps/user_webfinger/appinfo/install.php (with CURL or
>> your browser, because it needs some server parameters!) I'm not sure if
>> this could also be done by a built-in upgrade routine, so I'm telling
>> you :P
>>
>> Hope you are ok with that (it's kind of my first "direct" contribution
>> to a big FOSS project :D ), have a nice day!
>>
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