Setting up another location besides Ghost

Heya,

To set up a static page at the root domain while having Ghost running under /blog, you’ll need to modify the Nginx configuration.

Follow these steps:

1. Upload your static site files to a directory in your droplet. For example: /var/www/html.
2. Open the Nginx configuration file for your Ghost installation. This is usually located at /etc/nginx/sites-available/your_domain.
3. Edit the configuration to include a new location block for the root path. Modify it like this:

server {
    ...
    location / {
        root /var/www/html;
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
    ...
}

Make sure to replace /var/www/html with the path to your static files directory. Save the changes and exit.

Finally, restart Nginx to apply the changes:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Your static page should now be accessible at the root domain, while the Ghost blog will remain under /blog.

For more information on Nginx configurations, you can refer to the DigitalOcean Nginx Server Blocks tutorial.

Hope that this helps!