From 64a9ce84d4b579b399b2c2aa6da68925c878c9f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neeldhara Misra <neeldhara@claws.tail2238a5.ts.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:16:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Serve multisite blogs from explicit Nginx roots

---
 Dockerfile                 |  1 +
 deploy/blog-locations.conf | 19 ++++++++++
 deploy/nginx.conf          | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 deploy/blog-locations.conf

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 05dca2b..9f70b47 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ RUN npm run build
 FROM nginx:1.27-alpine AS runtime
 
 COPY deploy/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
+COPY deploy/blog-locations.conf /etc/nginx/snippets/blog-locations.conf
 COPY --from=build /app/dist /usr/share/nginx/html
 
 EXPOSE 80
diff --git a/deploy/blog-locations.conf b/deploy/blog-locations.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e998d4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/blog-locations.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+index index.html;
+
+access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
+error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
+
+location = /nginx-health {
+  access_log off;
+  return 204;
+}
+
+location ~* \.(?:css|js|mjs|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|svg|webp|ico|woff2?)$ {
+  try_files $uri =404;
+  expires 1y;
+  add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable";
+}
+
+location / {
+  try_files $uri $uri/index.html /index.html /404.html;
+}
diff --git a/deploy/nginx.conf b/deploy/nginx.conf
index 22d084d..fa5cd0d 100644
--- a/deploy/nginx.conf
+++ b/deploy/nginx.conf
@@ -1,36 +1,48 @@
-map $host $blog_site {
-  default research;
-  research.neeldhara.blog research;
-  vibes.neeldhara.blog vibes;
-  puzzles.neeldhara.blog puzzles;
-  reflections.neeldhara.blog reflections;
-  poetry.neeldhara.blog poetry;
-  reviews.neeldhara.blog reviews;
-  art.neeldhara.blog art;
+server {
+  listen 80 default_server;
+  server_name research.neeldhara.blog research.neeldhara.email _;
+  root /usr/share/nginx/html/research;
+  include /etc/nginx/snippets/blog-locations.conf;
 }
 
 server {
-  listen 80 default_server;
-  server_name _;
-
-  root /usr/share/nginx/html/$blog_site;
-  index index.html;
-
-  access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
-  error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
-
-  location = /nginx-health {
-    access_log off;
-    return 204;
-  }
-
-  location ~* \.(?:css|js|mjs|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|svg|webp|ico|woff2?)$ {
-    try_files $uri =404;
-    expires 1y;
-    add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable";
-  }
-
-  location / {
-    try_files $uri $uri/ /404.html;
-  }
+  listen 80;
+  server_name vibes.neeldhara.blog vibes.neeldhara.email;
+  root /usr/share/nginx/html/vibes;
+  include /etc/nginx/snippets/blog-locations.conf;
+}
+
+server {
+  listen 80;
+  server_name puzzles.neeldhara.blog puzzles.neeldhara.email;
+  root /usr/share/nginx/html/puzzles;
+  include /etc/nginx/snippets/blog-locations.conf;
+}
+
+server {
+  listen 80;
+  server_name reflections.neeldhara.blog reflections.neeldhara.email;
+  root /usr/share/nginx/html/reflections;
+  include /etc/nginx/snippets/blog-locations.conf;
+}
+
+server {
+  listen 80;
+  server_name poetry.neeldhara.blog poetry.neeldhara.email;
+  root /usr/share/nginx/html/poetry;
+  include /etc/nginx/snippets/blog-locations.conf;
+}
+
+server {
+  listen 80;
+  server_name reviews.neeldhara.blog reviews.neeldhara.email;
+  root /usr/share/nginx/html/reviews;
+  include /etc/nginx/snippets/blog-locations.conf;
+}
+
+server {
+  listen 80;
+  server_name art.neeldhara.blog art.neeldhara.email;
+  root /usr/share/nginx/html/art;
+  include /etc/nginx/snippets/blog-locations.conf;
 }