Hosting a Wordpress blog as a sub folder from a S3 website

I have a website set up for my organisation under www.mycompany.com (running on Amazon S3). I also have a Wordpress blog set up under blog.mycompany.com (running on a separate LAMP server).

For SEO purposes, our marketing department has asked to set up www.mycompany.com/blog to go to our blog main page.

Our website is currently hosted on an Amazon S3 bucket, behind Amazon Cloudfront. I have managed to set up S3/CloudFront redirections successfully so that a basic redirection happens automatically, e.g.:

www.mycompany.com/blog -> blog.mycompany.com/blog

www.mycompany.com/blog/my-article -> blog.mycompany.com/blog/my-article

Which is all fine, except for the fact that Wordpress shows blog.mycompany.com as the subdomain.

Is there any way that we can still show in the URL bar the www subdomain in place of blog? e.g. so it still shows www.mycompany.com/blog/my-article ?

Is there some way we can use mod_rewrite or similar to alter the URL for the Wordpress site?

Topic amazon subdomains mod-rewrite Wordpress

Category Web

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You are using Cloudfront in front of S3, so in order to mix in 2 sources of content you need to

  1. on your blog.mycompany.com - add rewrites of blog/* -> /* so that your blog can handle blog.mycompany.com/blog/ urls well.

  2. add new blog.mycompany.com as an Origin in "Origins and Origin Groups" tab.

  3. add new "Behavior" for /blog* path pattern and point it to your newly created "blog.mycompany.com" origin.

  4. if you get redirects from blog (e.g. WPMU can do that) - hack $_SERVER hostname variable in your wp-config.php and replace it

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