How can I use a subdirectory instead of a subdomain?

Question

I\'m building a rails app that I\'ll host on Heroku at domain.com. And I\'d like to use WordPress for the blog hosted on phpfog, but I don\'t want to use a subdomain like bl

Answer 1

I'd say your best bet is to try and do a reverse proxy with Rack middleware (akin to Apache's mod_proxy).

A quick Google search revealed this gem ( https://github.com/jaswope/rack-reverse-proxy ), but the author mentions that it's probably not production-ready. Having a Rack middleware proxy should allow you to forward your subdomain yourdomain.com/blog to another website your-phpfog-account.com/wordpress-installation.