{"id":19032966,"date":"2026-09-30T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/webfinger-error-error-getting-jrd-404-not-found\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:21:46","slug":"webfinger-error-error-getting-jrd-404-not-found","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/webfinger-error-error-getting-jrd-404-not-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Webfinger error &#8220;Error getting JRD: 404 Not Found&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am setting up ActivityPub and webfinger on the site above. The WP in-built test on <a href=\"https:\/\/freifunk-stuttgart.de\/wp-admin\/site-health.php\">site-health.php<\/a> shows no functional errors for ActivitPub. But the test on <a href=\"https:\/\/webfinger.net\/lookup\/?resource=%40ffsev%40freifunk-stuttgart.de\">https:\/\/webfinger.net <\/a>still returns an error<br \/><br \/>Lookup: @ffsev@freifunk-stuttgart.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>09:05:57 Looking up WebFinger data for acct:@ffsev@freifunk-stuttgart.de<br \/>09:05:57 GET https:\/\/freifunk-stuttgart.de\/.well-known\/webfinger?resource=acct%3A%40ffsev%40freifunk-stuttgart.de<br \/>09:05:58 Error getting JRD: 404 Not Found<br \/>JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD) null<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I`ve read through <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Automattic\/wordpress-activitypub\/issues\/188\">https:\/\/github.com\/Automattic\/wordpress-activitypub\/issues\/188<\/a> but this one is already closed, so this &#8220;working hack&#8221; with a .well-known\/webfinger file should no longer be needed. Any idea how to debug this?<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19032966","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19032966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19032966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19032966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}