Adding wordpress Blog in a Rails application

Question

Hey,

I have Rails application deployed on my home root directory of a domain and symlinked with my public_html/applicationname.com/. I wanted to install wordpress in applicationname.com/blog path. But rails ain`t allowing me to do so. I have tried a subdomain as well, but still, the routes are being handled by Rails.

What would be the best solution to deploy a blog along with Rails application ?

I can only think of .htaccess modification.

Answer 1

You should put your blog into the rails' public directory.
That's the place for static files (and php ones are).

Answer 2

If you are deploying your rails app using Passenger then you can disable Passenger for a particular location. See section 5.8 of the documentation, which has an example for WordPress.