How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)

25 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by taikon
(davidma.org)

16 Comments

teach

12 hours ago

Maybe should add "with Cloudflare Workers" to the headline

Because hosting a blog inside a subdirectory is like the most trivial webserver thing ever

ahme

11 hours ago

Are we not just doing static html for blogs anymore?

cr125rider

10 hours ago

That doesn’t sound bloated enough. Too fast. Gonna give a user whiplash.

doublerabbit

10 hours ago

.htaccess that rewrites the .txt to serve the file as an .html extension. With help from bash you then append a bootstrap v3 CSS library to all files.

Using websockets for post updates this feeds in to a webview component powered by django that interacts with an Angular PHP parser using Wordpress as the database translation layer that a python daemon watches and dumps the wordpress entry back in to a text file.

You then render this in to a shadow DOM with react and include Vue.js and Next.js to create a carousel and landing page boilerplate.

Bender

10 hours ago

We could just enable auto-index and drop a bunch of .txt files into it.

sofixa

5 hours ago

We are, but throwing the static HTML on a global CDN (like CloudFlare Pages/Workers, Netlify, Firebase Hosting, etc) makes things easier (nothing to maintain) and ensures that if we end up popular on HN or Reddit, there is no hug of death because the scale is infinite. Also, all of those have very generous free tiers, so it can cost nothing.

taikon

12 hours ago

I wanted to but it said it exceeds the character limit

nomel

9 hours ago

I was hoping this was a joke about storing your blog text AS the subdirectory name.

gnabgib

11 hours ago

Maybe(?): How to Host a Blog in a directory Instead of Subdomain with Cloudflare Workers

shmoe

9 hours ago

also proof that everything old is new again at some point.

gnabgib

12 hours ago

(2025) At the time (on a different domain, but not in a subdirectory) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050069

taikon

12 hours ago

Yes I switched the domain. But davidma.co redirects to davidma.org.

gnabgib

11 hours ago

It doesn't presently (maybe a config issue?) Cloudflare just never responds:

> Connecting to www.davidma.co(more..)

> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... (timeout)

erdaniels

8 hours ago

I'm not trying to be rude here, but this doesn't belong on this site. This is like posting documentation on CloudFlare for a tutorial that isn't remotely a feature.

Computer0

6 hours ago

I use a subdomain because I like it, and my goals are not aligned with the assumed goals of the article.

theturtle

11 hours ago

This is somehow news? I was doing this 30 actual years ago.

Long before Google and Cloudflare stunk up the internet.