[HELP] How to change Ghost's subdirectory to /blog

June 20, 2017 1.8k views
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ac130nz
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I am trying to get ghost to run from example.com/blog instead of just example.com

I am now getting a ghost 404 on http://example.com/blog/ and the default nginx home page on http://example.com/

I used DO's one click installer and had ghost running before I tried this. I have looked at all info I could find on DO and ghostforbeginners.com

This is what I did:

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/ghost

changed the location / to location /blog here:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

    server_name http://example.com; # Replace with your domain

    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html index.htm;

    client_max_body_size 10G;

    location /blog {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:2368;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_buffering off;
    }
}

Then saved it and nano /var/www/ghost/config.js changed the production url be have http://example.com/blog/ 

 production: {
        url: 'http://example.com/blog/',
        mail: {},
        database: {
...

Then I restarted everything 

sudo service nginx restart

These didn't work or help me: https://www.ghostforbeginners.com/how-to-install-ghost-in-a-subdirectory/ and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/adding-ghost-blog-to-existing-website and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-put-ghost-blog-as-subdirectory-on-page

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1 Answer
hansen June 20, 2017

Hi @ac130nz

Try this server-block instead, just like the article on Ghost for Beginners:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
    server_name example.com; # Should only be the domain, not with http

    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html index.htm;

    location ^~ /blog {
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }
}
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  • crabmusket November 6, 2018

    I was having the same problem and this resolved it for me! It looks like my assets were getting matched by another location rule elsewhere in my nginx config, and as per this great article the ^~ effectively tells Nginx to not do that.

    Understanding Nginx Server and Location Block Selection Algorithms
    by Justin Ellingwood
    Nginx is one of the most popular web servers in the world. In this guide, we will discuss how Nginx selects the server and location block that will handle a given client's request. We will go over the algorithm in place, as well as the directives and options you can use to modify the selection process.
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