Blog as a Subfolder instead of Subdomain

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Hello people :grin:! Iā€™m facing an issue regarding the deployment of a blog on an app that itā€™s on production.
Basically i want to deploy a blog using Ghost platform and the first approach that comes in my mind is to deploy it in a different server but using a subdomain like this: blog.app.com
This would be the easiest approach but since the app is an aggregator, we donā€™t have too much content and weā€™d like to use the blog to rank the app, so the subdomain approach is not the best one from a SEO perspective.
My idea is to deploy Ghost to a different server(as in the first approach) but iā€™d like to point it at an URL like app.com/blog, so a subfolder and not a subdomain. Is this the best approach or is feasible in your opinion? Could you suggest me a better approach if is possible or a way to do the second one, because right now iā€™m lost.

I was also reading this thread Using Subdomain as Parameter and @ricoshady suggests to use a proxy to convert calls, but i donā€™t know too much about proxy, so should i install a proxy on the blogā€™s server or the Meteor one? Thanks for the help guys :slight_smile:

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Are you trying to run a meteor app at yourdomain.com, and a blog at yourdomain.com/blog? If thatā€™s the case, itā€™s relatively easy using nginx. Basically you will set up a reverse proxy for the app so that it can ā€œliveā€ at yourdomain.com, then have another rule to direct /blog visitors to the proper place.

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Yep! The app is already running(iā€™ve used mup on a DO droplet), i just want to run the blog on app.com/blog using Ghost.
Is it better to run Ghost on the same server of Meteor or run in another server and use a reverse proxy to point to app.com/blog? Iā€™m a bit confused on how to use a reverse proxy, i need to do some researches :slight_smile:

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I donā€™t think one is any better than another. Having everything on one server makes things easier, but it depends on your needs. There is a good article here that walks through some of the basics of setting up nginx, meteor, etc., but the crucial part of the nginx conf file is:

location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; # allow websockets
    proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr; # preserve client IP
}

There are a few different ways to go about it, but this is the basic nginx stuff you need to proxy pass to a meteor app.

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Thanks @vigorwebsolutions, iā€™ve resolved studying a bit Nginx and various guide on the web, but your post gave me the right direction to follow! :slight_smile: Thanks