How do I go about making a subdomain appear to be a subfolder?

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I’m trying to find out how to make a subdomain appear as a subfolder ie:

if I have -

forum.example.com

but I want to browse to -

example.com/forum

to find it rather than have it available at forum.example.com

also - how would I work this with SSL?

should I add forum.example.com to the certificate? or would it be covered under example.com?

Thanks for any pointers!

Johnny

Answer 1

hansen August 2, 2017

Hi @bigjohnny

Are you using Apache or Nginx?

If you don’t want to use forum.example.com anymore, then you can setup redirects to example.com/forum/
And then you only need to add HTTPS to example.com since you’re not going to actively use forum.example.com

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bigjohnny August 2, 2017

Hi @hansen I’m using Nginx..

I haven’t even set it up yet, so I am not using forum.example.com at all, but deploying with dokku I think its easiest to deploy the app to that subdomain.

Thanks for the advice, redirecting seems like a pretty easy option as well,

Cheers,

Johnny
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- hansen August 2, 2017
  
  @bigjohnny
  
  I would recommend that you set it up like it should work. So take advantage of Nginx’s simple configuration structure and use the location /forum/ { ... } for the Dokku app instead of it’s own server { ... } block.
  
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  bigjohnny August 2, 2017
  
  OK - not sure how I’d do that but will look into it and give it a try
  
  Thanks!
  
  Johnny
  
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  hansen August 2, 2017
  
  @bigjohnny
  
  When you got some configuration to show, then post it here if you want help.
  It’s almost the same configuration - just instead of having the entire server block you would only use the location and specific proxies/etc for that location.
  
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  bigjohnny August 2, 2017
  
  OK,
  
  thanks again,
  
  johnny
  
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Answer 2

bigjohnny August 2, 2017

Hi @hansen I’m using Nginx..

I haven’t even set it up yet, so I am not using forum.example.com at all, but deploying with dokku I think its easiest to deploy the app to that subdomain.

Thanks for the advice, redirecting seems like a pretty easy option as well,

Cheers,

Johnny
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- hansen August 2, 2017
  
  @bigjohnny
  
  I would recommend that you set it up like it should work. So take advantage of Nginx’s simple configuration structure and use the location /forum/ { ... } for the Dokku app instead of it’s own server { ... } block.
  
  Reply Report
  
  bigjohnny August 2, 2017
  
  OK - not sure how I’d do that but will look into it and give it a try
  
  Thanks!
  
  Johnny
  
  Reply Report
  
  hansen August 2, 2017
  
  @bigjohnny
  
  When you got some configuration to show, then post it here if you want help.
  It’s almost the same configuration - just instead of having the entire server block you would only use the location and specific proxies/etc for that location.
  
  Reply Report
  
  bigjohnny August 2, 2017
  
  OK,
  
  thanks again,
  
  johnny
  
  Reply Report

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