How to configure Sub-folders with Ruby on Rails on Feather

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Let’s say your main domain is www.mydomain.com and feather blog url is my-domain.feather.blog and you want to host on /blog sub-folder.

To configure the subfolder, we will need to setup a reverse proxy in your rails project. To do we will be using gem to install rack-reverse-proxy in your project.

In the config.ru or application route file add the following code:

reverse_proxy(%r{^/blog(.*)?$}, 'https://my-domain.feather.blog/blog$1', { preserve_host: true })
reverse_proxy(%r{^/_feather(.*)?$}, 'https://my-domain.feather.blog/_feather$1', { preserve_host: true })

Make sure to my-domain.feather.blog to your feather blog url and /blog to which ever route you choose to use.

Once this is done, go to Feather. Navigate to Settings > Features and switch on “Enable Subdirectory” feature and after that go to Settings > Sub-folder management and enter the following values,

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Make sure to replace www.mydomain.com with the domain you are using and blog with whatever sub-route you plan to use.

Once you do these, your sub-folder should be live. You should be able to access your feather site on www.mydomain.com/blog. If it’s not reach out to us at support@feather.so.

Important Note: Under the Domains section make sure that you are using Subdomain settings. If you have added a custom domain there, please remove it. Sub-folders does not require the Custom Domain configurations and if you have it, then the sub-folder will not work.