Hosting Rails app and Wordpress on same domain(as folder instead of subdomain)
Hey guys, Yesterday I did an interesting server configuration. Actually we had a rails app hosted on server which is using passenger(a.k.a mod_rails). This application can be access by going to http://domain.com . Also we had a wordpress running which could be access by going to http://blog.domain.com.
But, for SEO sake I had to change configuration so that wordpress can be access by http://domain.com/blog instead of http://blog.domain.com/
The problem was if I configure wordpress for http://domain.com/blog and go to this url, the request was handled by rails app because of domain.com virtualhost.
So what I did? I changed apache virtualhost configuration for http://blog.domain.com and http://domain.com as:
Also I created a symbolic link to wordpress installation directory under rails public folder(ln -s /var/www/html/wordpress /var/www/html/railsapp/blog).
I restarted apache and it worked fine. Wordpress was running at http://domain.com/blog and rails app was as http://domain.com/.
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