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

by taikon 16 comments 27 points
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[−] teach 27d 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 27d ago
Are we not just doing static html for blogs anymore?
[−] sofixa 27d 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.
[−] cr125rider 27d ago
That doesn’t sound bloated enough. Too fast. Gonna give a user whiplash.
[−] doublerabbit 27d 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 27d ago
We could just enable auto-index and drop a bunch of .txt files into it.
[−] taikon 27d ago
I wanted to but it said it exceeds the character limit
[−] shmoe 27d ago
also proof that everything old is new again at some point.
[−] gnabgib 27d ago
(2025) At the time (on a different domain, but not in a subdirectory) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050069
[−] erdaniels 27d 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 27d ago
I use a subdomain because I like it, and my goals are not aligned with the assumed goals of the article.
[−] theturtle 27d ago
This is somehow news? I was doing this 30 actual years ago.

Long before Google and Cloudflare stunk up the internet.