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Share link issue hosting Ghost blog under subfolder on Windows Azure

I have set up a ghost blog via azure marketplace, which should be the equvilant of clicking deploy to azure from https://github.com/felixrieseberg/Ghost-Azure

Let's say I have it at: theblog.azurewebsites.net/

I want it to be at https://www.mycustomdomain.com/blog and I have the main site in another app service, let's say at mainsite.azurewebsites.net/ this site has mycustomdomain.com DNS all set up with a certificate.

Within this site I have the Rewrite in the web.config

<rule name="Reverse Proxy to blog" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^blog(.*)" />
  <action type="Rewrite" url="https://theblog.azurewebsites.net/blog/{R:1}" />
</rule>

At the moment I am trying to get this right in the staging site so I am viewing the blog at https://mainsite-staging.azurewebsites.net/blog/

The above rewrite successfully shows me the blog hosted at theblog.azurewebsites.net without changing the url in the browser. In theblog I also have websiteUrl app setting as https://www.mycustomdomain.com.au/blog so my canonical urls are correct in the blog posts.

Remaining Problems

  1. If I click on the logo in the blog the link is to https://theblog.azurewebsites.net rather than either https://mainsite-staging.azurewebsites.net/blog or https://www.mycustomdomain.com/blog
  2. The home link, even though specified in navigation settings as https://www.mycustomdomain.com/blog is linking to https://theblog.azurewebsites.net
  3. The share links for twitter and facebook are based on sharing https://theblog.azurewebsites.net

I have searched the internet for ages...

I answered: Turns out there is also a websiteUrlSSL app setting that is not mentioned on the readme.

I just needed to set this too.

Solution

  • Turns out there is also a websiteUrlSSL app setting that is not mentioned on the readme.

    I just needed to set this too.

    https://github.com/felixrieseberg/Ghost-Azure/issues/57