Q: Host buildfast on subfolder without Cloudfare
Hi, I presume subfolder hosting in my domain is included in the AppSumo deal, but reviewing your page, looks like subfolder hosting is limited to Cloudfare.
In the case I'm not using or I haven't got access to Cloudfare, is there any way doing that besides subdomain?
My particular case is trying to integrate Buildfast with Bubble.io, trying to use a subfolder and keep as much as possible the look and feel of my Bubble.io-generated webapp
Thanks in advance.
_paruladitya_
Feb 20, 2025A: For hosting a buildfast blog on your sub-folder, it has to be done according to where your domain is hosted.
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If you want to host the blog on the path, then there are NO DNS entries needed for CNAME or TXT. So when a user types the url https://yoursite.com/blog the hit doesn't come to our server but goes to your server, and you have to create a reverse proxy that will call our server with the headers that we need to make the blog work in the path.
We have a working example of that reverse proxy using Cloudflare workers and you could do the same in how your server tech stack works. See this guide as reference https://help.buildfast.blog/article/dac3cddd8da54a56abd072a4371a9c96-how-to-host-your-buildfast-blog-on-a-subfolder-of-your-main-domain-on-cloudflare
Others have used AWS, nginx, apache or their custom reverse proxy to achieve that.
We enable on our side the domain & path where the blog can be proxied to, but how you reverse proxy is upto your server stack
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Also, putting on sub path on bubble.io does not work as bubble.io doesn't allow you to add a proxy in between.
pandacat