How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)
davidma.orgMaybe should add "with Cloudflare Workers" to the headline
Because hosting a blog inside a subdirectory is like the most trivial webserver thing ever
Are we not just doing static html for blogs anymore?
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.
That doesn’t sound bloated enough. Too fast. Gonna give a user whiplash.
.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.
We could just enable auto-index and drop a bunch of .txt files into it.
I wanted to but it said it exceeds the character limit
Maybe(?): How to Host a Blog in a directory Instead of Subdomain with Cloudflare Workers
I was hoping this was a joke about storing your blog text AS the subdirectory name.
also proof that everything old is new again at some point.
(2025) At the time (on a different domain, but not in a subdirectory) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050069
Yes I switched the domain. But davidma.co redirects to davidma.org.
It doesn't presently (maybe a config issue?) Cloudflare just never responds:
> Connecting to www.davidma.co(more..)
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... (timeout)
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.
I use a subdomain because I like it, and my goals are not aligned with the assumed goals of the article.
This is somehow news? I was doing this 30 actual years ago.
Long before Google and Cloudflare stunk up the internet.