Enabling wordpress with a flask app using nginx - wordpress

Question

Is it possible to enable wordpress on /blog of an existing flask application using nginx? Here is the config i've been working with but not getting anywhere with it. I can get either flask or wordpress to work through nginx but
1) not both at the same time
2) not wordpress with /blog option enabled (wordpress works at / but not /blog)
server {
listen 80;
server_name 0.0.0.0;
#### if I enable the flask app, the blog doesn't work, so how can I keep this as well as add /blog ####
# location / {
# include uwsgi_params;
# uwsgi_pass unix:/var/www/html/cr_webapp/my_app.sock;
#}
#### if I change / to /blog, it starts looking in /usr/share/nginx/html location ####
location = / {
#root /var/www/html/blog;
index index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?q=$uri?$args;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
root /var/www/html/blog;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
root /var/www/html/blog;
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
root /var/www/html/blog;
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg)$ {
root /var/www/html/blog;
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
}
I've looked at a link but the solution didn't work for me. Also, when I use /blog, it defaults to a --prefix location, so not sure how I can change that - a link
Is what I am trying to do possible? or i've been ignorant this whole time.

Answer 1

To run WordPress under the /blog prefix, and assuming that it's installed in a directory with the same name, you set root to the directory above.
Use the ^~ modifier, and nested location blocks for anything that belongs to WordPress. See this document for details.
location ^~ /blog {
root /var/www/html;
index index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?q=$uri?$args;
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
}
Assuming that your existing flask configuration works, these lines should be fine:
location / {
include uwsgi_params;
uwsgi_pass unix:/var/www/html/cr_webapp/my_app.sock;
}
The following lines are unrelated to WordPress or flask. If the files exist, set a value for root which points to where the files are located.
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}