Best way to multiple sites and services under one domain?

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Hi there. I am looking into porting existing microsites and microservices from our own custom platform to Render. And I am wondering what would be the best way to achieve the following setup on Render:

example.com -> a root web service that serves some CMS-backed content. 
example.com/path-a -> web service A
example.com/path-b -> web service B
example.com/service/path-c -> web service C

I understand that keeping this setup will have some other tradeoffs (such as the PR preview URLs may not work properly). And we are looking into a new URL scheme as well. For now, it would be great to find a way to migrate existing services without much modifications, and later plan to migrate them one-by-one to a better fitting setup.

Thank you all in advance!

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Would using rewrite rules cover your use case? It may be possible to use Preview Environments to preserve connectivity between services for PR previews.

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Hello Ralph, thank you for the reply!

Using Rewrite/Redirect is a good direction. I seemed to be able to achieve the thing I describe with it with minimum efforts! I created an empty GitHub repository to deploy as a static site, and the Rewrite/Redirect was then available for configure. However this method still has one short-fall for my setup – the site behind the root domain must be a static site.

The site I would like to use for my root domain is a Next.js instance deployed as Node Server. If I create a separated, empty Static Site instance solely for Rewrite/Redirect, I will not be able to configure a Rewrite to the root path.

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a screenshot of Rewrite/Redirect configuration. There are 3 rules rewriting to https://exmaple.onrender.com, the sources are /*, /, and empty. But the empty source is not a valid source as it must be a relative path.1075Ă—435 40.9 KB

I think the best way to go now for me is to refactor my root site – deploy it only as a static site to use Rewrite/Redirect as much as I want.

Could it be an idea to make the “Rewrite/Redirect” feature available for a Web Service instance as well. But I am not sure what could be the consequence or if this is even possible or planned by Render.

Thanks again for the guide! This is really a nice platform to work with :smiley:

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Hi @ten, thanks for the kind words! It’s clever to use an empty static site with rewrites. I may be misunderstanding your use case, but I should point out that rewrite rules are applied in the order they are listed. So you could potentially do something like:

rewrites
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