How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)(www.davidma.org)
20 pointsby taikon5 hours ago6 comments
  • teach5 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

    • ahme4 hours ago
      Are we not just doing static html for blogs anymore?
      • Bender3 hours ago
        We could just enable auto-index and drop a bunch of .txt files into it.
      • cr125rider3 hours ago
        That doesn’t sound bloated enough. Too fast. Gonna give a user whiplash.
        • doublerabbit2 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.

    • taikon4 hours ago
      I wanted to but it said it exceeds the character limit
      • nomel2 hours ago
        I was hoping this was a joke about storing your blog text AS the subdirectory name.
      • gnabgib4 hours ago
        Maybe(?): How to Host a Blog in a directory Instead of Subdomain with Cloudflare Workers
    • shmoe2 hours ago
      also proof that everything old is new again at some point.
  • erdaniels36 minutes 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.
  • gnabgib5 hours ago
    (2025) At the time (on a different domain, but not in a subdirectory) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050069
    • taikon4 hours ago
      Yes I switched the domain. But davidma.co redirects to davidma.org.
      • gnabgib4 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)

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  • theturtle4 hours ago
    This is somehow news? I was doing this 30 actual years ago.

    Long before Google and Cloudflare stunk up the internet.

  • 5 hours ago
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