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Headless Wordpress and React App on same server - how?

flo

New Pleskian
I am pretty new in website and server stuff and i have a question:

I have an react app and it should be the main and only website I want to reach under www.example.com, and I want to use Wordpress just headless but on the same server. Server is managed by Plesk.

As far as I understood, Wordpress has to be installed in my servers document root, e.g. /httpdocs/.

But when I want to reach my react app under www.example.com, I have to deploy the build folder content also into /httpdocs/, which interfers with wordpress. In this case if I go to www.example.com, I get the wordpress site.

When I have my react app in another folder, e.g. /github/build/, and set this folder my document root, the page is accessible under www.example.com, but wordpress is not reachable anymore (www.example.com/wp-login.php not found).

The only ugly way it seems for me it can work is if I deploy the build folder into the wordpress root directory, but then the react app is only acessible under www.example.com/build (only guessing).

Is there a way to make it work as wanted?
 
I set the thread to resolved because the solution is simply to install wordpress in a sub folder, e.g. example.com/wp.
 
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