Creating Sub Directories with Ghost 1-Click Installation

If you are using the Ghost one-click install image then do the following.

Edit your nginx configuration that serves your ghost blog /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

Add the following inside of the server block, right after location / { ... }

    location /static {
            root /var/www/ghost;
    }

Then goto your Ghost blog installed directory: /var/www/ghost

There create a new directory, in this case I called it “static”.

Put your files, sub-directories or anything else that you want in there.

To access them just goto: http://my-ghost-blog.com/static/file1 http://my-ghost-blog.com/static/subdir1 etc.

If you want to call it something else, just modify the location block to something other than /static and create the directory to match it.

Now my full /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf looks like:

  server {
    listen 80;
    server_name my-ghost-blog.com;
  
    client_max_body_size 10M;
    location / {                                                             
      proxy_pass http://localhost:2368/;                               
      proxy_set_header Host $host;                                     
      proxy_buffering off;                                             
    }
       
    location /static {
      root /var/www/ghost;
    }
  }

Last but not least ensure that the directory you created and the files inside of it have the correct permissions to ensure that nginx can read them, and you’re all set.