Best practices for running Wordpress on the same domain as Rails app
What's the best way to run Wordpress on the same domain as a Rails application? I've got a standard Rails app with Nginx and Mongrel running at http _ mydomain. I need to run a Wordpress blog at http _ mydomain _ com _ blog. My preference would be to host the blog in Apache running on either the same server or a separate box but I don't want the user to see a different server in the URL. Is that possible and if not, what would you recommend to accomplish the goal? 5 Answers Actually, since you're using Nginx, you're already in great shape and don't need Apache. You can run PHP through fastcgi (there are examples of how to do this in the Nginx wiki), and use a URL-matching pattern in your Nginx configuration to direct some URLs to Rails and others to PHP. Here's an example Nginx configuration for running a WordPress blog through PHP fastcgi (note I've also put in the Nginx equivalent of the WordPress .htaccess, so you will also have fancy URLs alre...