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Strawberry
Asked: 2012-08-16 16:40:04 +0800 CST

For 1 domain, how can I use both WordPress and Rails?

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I have Rails installed for example.com, however, I want to use WordPress for my blog as well. So I want example.com/blog to be WordPress. The problem is, I want to have WordPress in a separate directory from the Rails, such as /srv/www/example-wp and have Rails in /srv/www/example-ruby. How can I separate this? I think it has something to do with virtual hosts, but I am unsure how this is supposed to work.

Update:

<VirtualHost ip:80>
     ServerAdmin [email protected]
     ServerName example.com
     ServerAlias www.example.com
     DocumentRoot /srv/www/example-ruby/public/

Alias /blog /srv/www/example-wp/public/

<Directory /srv/www/example-wp/public/>
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

     <Directory /srv/www/example-ruby/public/>
         # This relaxes Apache security settings.
         AllowOverride all
         # MultiViews must be turned off.
         Options -MultiViews
     </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
apache-2.2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You are looking for the "Alias" function in Apache.

    The Alias function allows you to "map" users to a sub-directory outside of the document root.

    You would use it like so:

    Alias /blog /srv/www/example-wp

    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html

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  2. Alias isn't enough on its own ... the home page and Dashboard work, but no actual post URLs. AliasMatch is required.

    Alias /blog /var/www/mpblog
AliasMatch /blog/(.*)$ /var/www/wordpress

    via Yii2x

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