Say I own a domain name: domain, and I host a static blog at www.domain.com. The advantage of having a static site is that I can host it for free on sites like netlify.
I'd now like to have several static webapps under the same domain name, so I don't have to purchase a domain for each webapp. I can do this by adding a subdomain for my apps. Adding a subdomain is easy enough. This video illustrates how to do it with GoDaddy for example. I can create a page for my apps called apps.domain.com where apps is my subdomain.
Say, I have several static webapps: app1, app2, app3. I don't want a separate subdomain for each of these, e.g., app1.domain.com. What I'd like instead is to have each app as a subfolder under the apps subdomain. In other words, I'd like to have the following endpoints:
apps.domain.com/app1apps.domain.com/app2apps.domain.com/app3At the apps.domain.com homepage, I'll probably have a static page listing out the various apps that can be accessed.
How do I go about setting this up? Do I need to have a server of some sort (e.g., nginx) at apps.domain.com? The thing is I'd like to be able to develop and deploy app1, app2, app3 etc. independently of each other, and independently of the apps subdomain. Each of these apps will probably be hosted by netlify or something similar.
Maybe there's an obvious answer to this issue, but I have no idea how to go about it at the moment. I would appreciate a pointer in the right direction.
I initially solved this problem using nginx. But, I was very unhappy with that because I needed to pay for a server, and needed to set up the architecture for it etc.
The easiest way to do this, that I know of today, is to make use of URL rewrites. E.g. Netlify rewrites, Next.js rewrites.
Rewrites allow you to map an incoming request path to a different destination path.
Here is an example usage in my website.