Host wordpress on a subdirectory of a Rails application

February 15, 20230 Views

I would like to know if it is possible to host a wordpress blog on the subdirectory of a rails application:

For instance: I would like to have domain.com/blog instead of having my blog on a subdomain: blog.domain.com .

I’m currently using lighttpd, but I can switch to something else if there is a solution.

Thanks

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Anonymous says:

February 15, 2023 at 8:34 am

You can also set an apache Alias to say /blog is /path/to/wordpress

so it’s technically not inside your RoR app, you can deploy/make changes to the RoR app all day long then, without the need to worry about overwriting wordpress files.

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Anonymous says:

February 15, 2023 at 8:34 am

As long as you don’t have conflicting htaccess directives, you should be fine. I’d still suggest you stick to the subdomain, though. Doing so is much cleaner for cookies (as well as for sessions if your RoR app uses any of the latter).

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Anonymous says:

February 15, 2023 at 8:34 am
If you’re using Phusion Passenger, you can try the following:
```
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.foo.com
DocumentRoot /apps/foo/public
<Directory /apps/foo/public/wordpress>
    PassengerEnabled off
    AllowOverride all      # <-- Makes WordPress's .htaccess file work.
</Directory>
```
Source: http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#_passengerenabled_lt_on_off_gt
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