Host non-Ghost webpage with Nginx and Ghost

June 18, 2014 3.5k views
nc.varie
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Hi everyone, I just installed ghost and I am having some trouble hosting some non-ghost content on my server. I would like to have ghost as homepage, but host in (example) /var/www/static a PDF file, or another HTML page. I sincerely do not know what to do. Reading around I tried to change my /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf 
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name nicolacarboni.com;
    root /var/www/ghost/content/themes/chiara;

    location / {
        try_files $uri @proxy;
    }

    location @proxy {
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   Host      $http_host;
        proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:2368;
    }
}
In order to host on /var/www/ghost/content/themes/chiara static files, but it does not work... Do you have some solutions?
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asb MOD June 18, 2014
You can set this up with an alias directive in your Nginx configuration: 
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name nicolacarboni.com;
    root /var/www/ghost/content/themes/chiara;

    location / {
        try_files $uri @proxy;
    }

    location @proxy {
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   Host      $http_host;
        proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:2368;
    }

    location /static/ {
            alias /var/www/static/;
    }
}
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