Custom LNAddress with Self-Hosted AlbyHub

I was using Wallet of Satoshi at first, but then I realized it does not support NWC, so I found Alby. It’s great, but I didn’t want to make that many payments (I’m a developer but a newbie in Nostr, more of an explorer).

Thanks to Alby, they have an open-source AlbyHub. I had a Raspberry Pi 3, so I updated it and installed AlbyHub, then connected my wallet to my Alby account.

Still, I didn’t like depending on other domains. Alby gave me the address [email protected]—ugly, right? So I started researching how to have a custom LN Address. Alby offers this if you buy their cloud hub, but as I mentioned, I didn’t want to spend money for this exploration.

After reading some Lightning Network documentation, I realized that LN supports well-known URLs.

I then accessed Alby’s well-known URL for my account: https://getalby.com/.well-known/lnurlp/delirehberi and got the correct configurations for the callback setting and updated identifier.

Next, I created a .well-known/lnurlp/delirehberi file under the static folder of my Hugo blog. I’m using GitHub Pages to serve my blog. This led to two problems:

1. GitHub Pages does not set correct headers for files without an extension. I tried to solve this using a Cloudflare Worker as middleware to add the application/json header.
2. My Cloudflare-GitHub setup was corrupted, affecting the proxy configuration for my root domain.

After some research, I realized the exact SSL configuration matters when using Cloudflare with GitHub Pages:

• Use Full SSL on Cloudflare and enable Force HTTPS in GitHub Pages.
• Or use Flexible SSL on Cloudflare and disable Force HTTPS in GitHub Pages.

After making these updates, I enabled proxy configuration for my root domain and added the worker route for my Worker.

Finally, it worked like a charm: https://emre.xyz/.well-known/lnurlp/delirehberi