Using Ghost as blog and WordPress as "main" homepage

Developer help Self-hosting
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I’ve seen countless topics on this @John, with no definitive answer. Would it be possible to get some ultimate clarity from yourself as to whether or not it’s possible to host Ghost on a subfolder (not subdomain) and run something on the main domain (ie. WordPress main site example.com, Ghost for blog example.com/blog) ?

Ironically, this probably goes against your own ethics as you moved away from WordPress for a reason, but purely technically speaking, is this possible?

Thanks for your time and if anybody else has any information that could help, please feel free to add to this topic.

EDIT: I will add that I’m not massively experienced with NGINX, but I’m led to believe you can’t have two conflicting server blocks for the same domain, but would it be possible?

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Please don’t @ people without context.

If you’re self hosting, it’s been possible for years to host Ghost on a subfolder. Ghost(Pro) has had some restrictions, but also supported it as well. You’re correct that nginx doesn’t allow conflicting server blocks, but the solution is to define multiple location blocks in a specific server block.

Here’s an example of multi-location blocks:

       location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

        location /blog/ {
                /* This would come from the config file created by ghost-cli */
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header host $http_host;
                proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;
        }
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