How to mount Ghost on a subdirectory in express

Question

I have a an existing website built with express and I would like to add a "/blog" powered by Ghost. I've added Ghost to my dependencies, installed and configured the urls in Ghosts config to localhost:3000/blog, but now I'm having trouble.

In my app.js I've added the following lines:

var blog = require('./routes/blog');
app.use('/blog', blog);

My blog.js looks like this:

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var ghost = require('ghost');
ghost().then(function (ghostServer) {
    ghostServer.start();
});

router.get('/', ghost);

module.exports = router;

I'm pretty sure blog.js is incorrect.

Stentor

have you had a look at this article? – Cosmetician

Yes, I read that. Thanks though. I think it's related. – Stentor

What's the problem? – Oiler

This article about using ghost as middleware could solve the problem. – Boarding

Answer 1

Node is very limited to do is, for cases when ghost is not configurable as express middleware, which I believe is the case here.

That leaves you with Loadbalancers and DNS as solutions to this problem. On something like HAPRoxy or Nginx you could make those recirects on the /blog route, would need to cater for scripts that the HTML requires to load and to redirect them too.

This might be also better practice since you seperate the concerns.

Burrill