How to setup ghost in a sub directory with apache2

December 6, 2014 3k views
srachit
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Hello I'm trying to setup ghost on my new droplet in a sub directory but cant get it to work for the life of. I've followed the these tutorials:
http://www.allaboutghost.com/how-to-install-ghost-in-a-subdirectory/
http://www.allaboutghost.com/how-to-proxy-port-80-to-2368-for-ghost-with-apache/

I basically want my main website to be srachit.com (which is working) and then a link to srachit.com/blog where my ghost website will be present (currently going to this link just displays all the files in that directory)

Any suggestions on what may be wrong?

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  • srachit December 8, 2014

    I have managed to get the blog to display here: http://srachit.com:2368/blog/
    How do I make it to display here: http://srachit.com/blog

    This is my srachit.com.conf for apache2

    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin srachit@gmail.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/srachit.com/public_html
        ServerName srachit.com
        ServerAlias www.srachit.com
        ProxyRequests off
        ProxyPass /var/www/srachit.com/public_html/blog http://104.236.167.29:2368/blog
        ProxyPassReverse /var/www/srachit.com/public_html/blog http:/104.236.167.29:2368/blog

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
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kamaln7 MOD December 8, 2014

ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse take a relative URI path, not the actual filesystem path to your website.

Replace

        ProxyPass /var/www/srachit.com/public_html/blog http://104.236.167.29:2368/blog
        ProxyPassReverse /var/www/srachit.com/public_html/blog http:/104.236.167.29:2368/blog

with

        ProxyPass /blog http://104.236.167.29:2368/
        ProxyPassReverse /blog http:/104.236.167.29:2368/

and restart Apache:

sudo service apache2 restart

You might have to edit Ghost's configuration and set the site url to http://srachit.com/blog as well.

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