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Possible to host a sub-directory on a separate server?
realbusiness
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in Help
Hi
Is it possible to host a subdirectory - domain.tld/subd
It's pretty easy to host a subdomain - add an A record and you are done. But how could a subdirectory be done?
Thanks
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Actually I'll live with a sub domain.
Reverse proxy. Can do it with Apache, Nginx, etc.
Yup subdomain is a better choice since it's easly done on the DNS level, no need to complicate things with reverse proxies.
just go with subdomain man why waste your time ?
Would a subdir work on a different ip/with reverse proxy(whatever can do it) with https with a single domain ssl?
Maybe mount the directory? Like SSHFS or something might work? Never tested.
That is the reason why i have this in favorites
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh
And create a symbolic link
Careful.
If this is meant to eg. host things for somebody else under a subdirectory, then this can have very problematic consequences for security. All browser security mechanisms (cross-origin resource protection, cookies, ...) work based on the hostname that code runs from.
You could indeed set up a reverse proxy on a certain path if this is just to spread out your own things across multiple servers, but this likely won't help much - now both servers would need to be up for things to be available, so there's only a few edgecases (eg. disk space) where this setup really makes sense.
Best to just go with a subdomain.