Hi, As mentioned in my previous posts, I migrated my WordPress blog to Discourse. There was an HTML page on my site that was hosted inside a folder in public_html So, its URL was example.com/foldername Now, I want to host the same folder/page again, but with Discourse. Where should I put this f…

That’s tricky, because Ember/Rails would try to interpret that as an app route … which doesn’t exist. I would step back if I were you and reconsider what you are ultimately, functionally trying to achieve and see if there isn’t another way to go about it? One option is to use this: […

Thanks @merefield for your response. Page publishing and subdomain won’t work. The only option other than hosting in the folder is hosting the folder on a new domain, which won’t be good for SEO as I won’t have all the authority of my actual domain. Is there any way to fulfill my purpose using a p…

Well you can create a new route in a plugin and put whatever you want on it. But a simple version of that will still run “inside” Discourse. Take a look at my Word Cloud or Community Network plugin code to see how that is done.

You could also host it elsewhere and use a Cloudflare workers route to make it look like a folder within your forum.

I don’t know how to do that. Is there any guide for it? Please share :slight_smile:

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Did you have any luck with this?

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denvergeeks August 18, 2023, 6:27am 10

@lowkey_324 what is it (specifically) that you want to accomplish?

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