Using nginx to redirect '/blog' to wordpress website hosted on another instance

Question

I have a website and want to host a wordpress blog(hosted on a different instance) under '/blog'. I am using nginx proxy with below configuration

location ^~ /blog
    proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP            $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For      $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header   Host                 $http_host;
    proxy_set_header   X-NginX-Proxy        true;
    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Proto    $scheme;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_pass         11.111.11.111
    proxy_redirect     off;
  }

I have also modified wordpress settings->general

WordPress Address (URL) - http://mywebsite.com/blog

Site Address (URL) - http://mywebsite.com/blog

The '/blog' in not fully functional as it is unable to load css and js .

Anyone has any idea how to do this. I have read many posts on this issue , but none solved my issue. Thanks.

Is the blog hosted in the root of the other instance?

Richard Smith
– Richard Smith

2016-09-24 08:52:00 +00:00
Commented Sep 24, 2016 at 8:52 — Richard Smith
– Richard Smith, Commented Sep 24, 2016 at 8:52
yes , its hosted on root of other instance

Tanay Mathur
– Tanay Mathur

2016-09-25 06:06:45 +00:00
Commented Sep 25, 2016 at 6:06 — Tanay Mathur
– Tanay Mathur, Commented Sep 25, 2016 at 6:06

Richard Smith · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-25 08:29:58Z

4

You are probably missing a mapping from the public URI /blog to the upstream URI /.

You can perform this function using the location and proxy_pass directives by appending a URI in the proxy_pass statement. See this document for details. For example:

location ^~ /blog/ {
    proxy_pass http://192.0.2.0/;
}

Depending on your overall configuration, the above may prevent the URL //example.com/blog (i.e. without a trailing /) from being correctly forwarded, in which case either (1) add a specific location block to handle the single case, or (2) add a rewrite ... break to the location block above.

Option (1) example (added to above):

location = /blog { rewrite ^ /blog/ last; }

Option (2) example:

location ^~ /blog {
    rewrite ^/blog(?:/(.*))?$ /$1 break;
    proxy_pass http://192.0.2.0;
}

In this second option, the aliasing function is moved to the rewrite statement, and the proxy_pass has no URI appended. See this document for details.

answered Sep 25, 2016 at 8:29

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Tanay Mathur Over a year ago

Sorry for late reply @RichardSmith. I tried your second method and it worked but some of the internal links are not working properly like 1) /wp-admin/post.php: instead publishing post ,its redirecting to /wp-admin/edit.php 2)Also wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category : is redirecting to /wp-admin/edit-tags.php Don't know why its causing redirection ?

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