Host WordPress in a Subfolder with Caddy 2
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After fixing 500 errors with WordPress hosted with Caddy 2 after I upgraded php-fpm, I ran into another weird issue of not being able to access sitemap.xml generated from one of the SEO tools. My WordPress files are all under /var/www/html/blog. Even though my Caddy displays the WordPress site without problems, however, when I used SEO tools to generate sitemap.xml and try to access it via https://domain.com/blog/sitemap.xml, it would always return the index page without successfully showing the sitemap. This is due to how the default php_fastcgi behavior is set up in Caddy, which is not very friendly when the PHP app (WordPress in this example) is placed in a subdirectory.
Below is a working example Caddyfile. Here, ‘handle_path’ is used to trim the URI.
localhost {
encode zstd gzip
root * /var/www/html
####### WordPress #######
handle_path /blog/* {
root * /var/www/html/blog
php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock {
root /var/www/html/blog
}
file_server
}
# Enable the static file server.
file_server
}Don’t forget to reload the Caddyfile to apply the changes
$ sudo systemctl reload caddy
