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So I have my main site that's built with react and express. Now I want to add a blog part to my site that's built with next.js. However I don't want to host it on something like blog.example.com I would rather host it on example.com/blog.

I'm using a digital ocean droplet that's running ubuntu 18.04 and nginx. I've looked at similar questions as mine but I couldn't get this working. I've pasted my nginx config below and added a code mark to the location block not working.

server {

        root /var/www/html;

        # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
    server_name example.com; # managed by Certbot

        location / {
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
                proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection upgrade;
                proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
                proxy_pass http://my_nodejs_upstream/;
                proxy_redirect off;
                proxy_read_timeout 240s;
        }

        location /api {
                proxy_pass http://localhost:3001;
        }
        
        # THIS BLOCK IS NOT WORKING 
        location /blog {
                root /blog; # /blog dir is in the root folder           
        }


    listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
 }

I'm pretty new to nginx configuration so apologies if this is a simple mistake. Thank you.

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Richard Smith
The path to the file is the concatenation of `root` value with the URI. Your configuration places `/blog/foo` at `/blog/blog/foo`. You should probably use `root /;` to point to the `blog` directory in the root of your file system.
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