How to put your Ghost blog at a subdirectory for $5/m

After some pretty painful days, I managed to put Cloakist's new Ghost blog at the subdirectory https://cloak.ist/blog instead of having to put it at a subdomain like blog.cloak.ist.

(Thanks to this post from @Mathias458 for giving me a headstart.)

I wanted to do this because:

From what I read it's muuuuch better for SEO to build up value in my root domain.
Ghost is a really great tool for blogging and will keep me writing more than a less user-friendly tool.

I find it really weird that there's no easy way to do this, given what seems like a very clear problem. (Someone build it?)

Anyway -- key steps are:

Create a Ghost $5/m droplet with DigitalOcean
Put it at a subdomain to start off with
Change the Ghost blog URL to subdomain.rootdomain.com/blog
Set up a Cloudflare worker to show the subdomain content at rootdomain.com/blog, and change all URLs from subdomain to root domain
Use Cloudflare Firewall to restrict the subdomain to everyone apart from yourself and Cloudflare

For more details, including a far more detailed step-by-step guide and the exact commands and code to use, see my post here:

https://cloak.ist/blog/how-to-put-a-ghost-blog-at-a-subdirectory-using-cloudflare-workers/

Louis Barclay

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on December 3, 2020

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Oh, very cool!

Any way you can do this on a hosted plan?

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  You mean hosted by Ghost? Hmm, I am not sure. I believe in theory it should be possible. You could just try following the guide I wrote for the Cloudflare Workers part and making some adaptations.
  
  Does the hosted plan allow you to change blog URL from subdomain.yoursite.com to subdomain.yoursite.com/blog? If not, you'd need to adjust my Cloudflare Worker script so that:
  
  yoursite.com/assets, /content, /public have the Worker deployed at them and translate those requests into requests at subdomain.yoursite.com
  
  requests at yoursite.com/blog go to subdomain.yoursite.com
  
  These are relatively easy tweaks (I could give tips if you can't work it out). There might however be something else I'm missing about why doing this on a hosted plan will be difficult. I feel like there's a reason why this article says it's difficult.
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    Thanks! I should probably just use the API and send posts to my new django site actually so the look stays consistent.
    
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