Where to put my own webapps inside the file structure?

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Hi,
I’ve a webapp, developped (not by me, I’m a director/photographer) a long time ago with an index.php, some subfolder and js files.
It’s mainly an interactive app for presenting images, with text in popup.
I want to showcase it on my blog. I’ve created a post, and plan to write a link to this index.php file.

For example, the link could point to something like : https://mydomain/my-post-title//index.php or https://mydomain/demo/demo1/index.php

I have a few other webapp like this, so what I’m looking to is :

  • where should I create this “demo” and “demo/demo1” subfolders in the file structure of Ghost ?

  • where do I specify this custom “route” ? (inside the lab section, by editing the yaml file ?)

(by the way, I use the Casper theme, but don’t see any “Casper” folder in the “theme” subfolder)

Concerning my setup, I’ve installed Ghost 4 with docker, self-hosted on a NAS behind SWAG reverse proxy.
Thanks for your help.

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Ghost won’t be able to support your PHP files because PHP is a server-side language.
You’ll need to install PHP, and configure your reverse proxy to route /demo to the PHP backend

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Hi @vikaspotluri123 , thank you to take the time to answer this “stupid” question ;-).
I will try to install php in another container for this specific “dynamic” webapp, thanks.

But to gain benefits from your experience and knowledge, what if I just want to display some simple “static HTML file” (and for some reason I don’t want to copy/past this HTML code inside a Ghost page), what would be the way to go ?
Could I create a folder inside the files/folder structure of Ghost, put the index.html files here, and point it from a link as https://mydomain.com/myfolder/index.html ?

Thanks for your help.

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If you wanted to host static html, your best bet is to configure it in your reverse proxy (you mentioned SWAG)!

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Hi, just to give the solution I’ve found : I’ve deployed another container (php:apache) and simply put my php files inside, and then set the reverse proxy in Swag.
Thanks for your advice ;-)

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