Ghost as an npm module not serving assets? - node.js

Question

I am using ghost as an npm module on an existing node app, basically it's a child app.
So my app runs on port 9200, I have setup a reverse proxy for that.
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:9200;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}
Then I configured my ghost app inside my main app.
// server.js
ghost().then(function (ghostServer) {
app.use(ghostServer.config.paths.subdir, ghostServer.rootApp);
ghostServer.start(app);
});
// node_modules/ghost/config.js
production: {
url: 'http://example.com/blog',
mail: {},
database: {
client: 'sqlite3',
connection: {
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost.db')
},
debug: false
},
server: {
// Host to be passed to node's `net.Server#listen()`
host: '127.0.0.1',
// Port to be passed to node's `net.Server#listen()`, for iisnode set this to `process.env.PORT`
port: '2368'
},
paths: {
contentPath: path.join(__dirname, '/blog/')
}
}
Since ghost handles the /blog route the assets path expects /blog to be in the route, so I had to change it from /content.
This works fine at http://example.com:9200/blog, but after setting up a reverse proxy for /blog
location /blog {
proxy_pass http://localhost:9200;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}
Then trying to go to http://example.com/blog all I can get is the html, the assets are not being served on this route, I suspect the location needs to include a wildcard like location /blog/*?

Answer 1

The following helped me solve my problem.
Nginx - reverse proxy a Ghost blog with /subfolder redirect
http://www.allaboutghost.com/how-to-install-ghost-in-a-subdirectory/
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_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;
proxy_redirect off;
}