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1. caliwildman
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have a functional Rails site and would like to also install WordPress on the same server. I would like the blog's url to be http://www.mysite.com/blog. I am an Apache newbie and only know the bare basics necessary to configure it for Rails. And I can't figure out how to configure Apache to accomplish this. Can someone help?

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I guess I'm not completely understanding the question.

   Why not just put the WordPress files into your web site's /blog directory?

3. caliwildman
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   A potential problem is the way Rails Capistrano (deployment tool) works. Every time I migrate my Rails app to a new release, a new dir gets created and the current Rails app dir (which is symbolic link maintained by Capistrano) is updated to point to the new dir. I will have to manually move the wordpress dir to the new Rails dir and this is something I wish to avoid if possible. Hope this makes more sense.

4. willwp
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   @caliwildman Did you ever find a solution? I am facing the same question.

   Thanks.

5. willwp
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi, did you ever find a solution? I am facing the same question.

6. robbpdx
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   This is easy to do with Apache:

   • Set up an alias for the URL you want wordpress to have.
   • Create a proxy pass exception for that path.
   • Proxy everything else to Rails.

   That will look like this. Taken from my Apache config:

   Alias /blog /home/other_content/blog
   <Directory /home/other_content/blog>
   AllowOverride All
   </Directory>

   ProxyPass /blog !

   ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster/
   ProxyPassReverse / balancer://mycluster/

   BTW, I've uploaded a new WordPress plugin to do single sign-on with Rails. Search for 'rails' in the plugin directory.

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