NIP05 for self hosted ghost

Verify your Nostr identity using your self hosted ghost website

This guide is for people already running self hosted ghost. If you don't have a self hosted ghost website read this guide.

Add the nostr.json file to /.well-known/

SSH into your ghost VPS and enter your www folder

cd /var/www/

List the contents to see the name of your ghost folder, for me it is simply ghost. Enter that folder / system / nginx-root.

/var/www/ghost/system/nginx-root

Make a folder here called .well-known (the . is important)

mkdir .well-known

Enter that folder

cd .well-known

Make the nostr.json file

touch nostr.json
nano nostr.json

Paste the below text but replace your-npub-in-hex-format with your npub. You can get the hex version of your npub using the online damus key converter.

{
  "names": {
    "_": "your-npub-in-hex-format"
  }
}

Save and exit (ctrl-x, y)

Changing NGINX configuration

Enter the nginx directory

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available

There will be two files, the domain.conf and domain-ssl.conf

I don't know what is required but become superuser ( sudo su ) and edit both with nano to include an instruction to add headers to the request.

    location ~ /.well-known {
        allow all;
    }

    location ~ /.well-known {
        allow all;
	add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *; 
    }

Restart nginx

systemctl restart nginx

Add your NIP05 to your nostr profile

Open your nostr app and use _@domain.com (for me, _@orange.surf)

If everything is success you should see your domain.com (orange.surf) below your name.

If not you can check if the header has been added

curl -I https://domain/.well-known/nostr.json

for me 
curl -I https://orange.surf/.well-known/nostr.json

The result should contain

access-control-allow-origin: *

If you get a 404 error you may have put the nostr.json file in the wrong place.

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