Run Ghost blog as subfolder of website running on node http-server

Question

First, forgive my lack of understanding of Joyent's smartmachine instance. I am running a free dev tier smartmachine instance of NodeJS for this scenario.

I am running a website at [path]/server/public/ on the filesystem via http-server and I want to simultaneously run a Ghost blog at [path]/server/public/blog/, both on port 80.

Is this possible? How would I accomplish it?

Answer 1

Setting up a thin wrapper using express can be a good solution (as Paul recommends), but can be a mess if you end with a big application with a lot of "diferennt services".

Instead ill go for a proxy (NGINX for example) on top of all my services.

With this solution, if a service fails, the rest no since they are decoupled.

You can listen on port 80 and proxy internally to each service:port.

Something like:

0.0.0.0:80 ---> Proxy
                  └──path: /     ─── localhost:3000  (Main Web)
                  └──path: /blog ─── localhost:4000 (Ghost)
                  ...