Hi, I have discourse at example.com and want to host a blog at example.com/blog. How can I do that? Thanks, Michael p.s: what you suggest from SEO point of view? subdomain or subfolder?

If you insist on doing this, I recommend you deploy Discourse to a subfolder first (www.example.com/forum), and then you can deploy other apps (like your blog) to other subfolders. [image] Use a subfolder (path prefix) to serve Discourse with multiple servers sharing a domain Self-Hosting Let’s say you have a WordPress blog on http://=DOMAIN=, and you want to serve your Discourse forums (which run on a different server) from http://=DOMAIN==PATH=. How do you do that? Note: This won’t work for serving multiple Discourse instances from different folders on the same domain. You need to use different subdomains so that each site can have different cookies. You’re going to need to send all traffic for the domain to one place that can route traffic to the correct server. In thi…

I think the only way you could do this is by putting a reverse proxy such as nginx or apache httpd in front of discourse, then passing everything at /blog to another application, and everything else to Discourse. I would not recommend it if you can avoid it. You can already use a discourse category as a blog, restricting who can post and who can add comments.

[image] downey: I would not recommend it if you can avoid it. so what you are suggest me to do?

My recommendation: If you only want a blog to post articles and solicit comments, just use Discourse. If you want to use a blog platform such as WordPress as a CMS for a “web site”, then put it at your domain root https://example.com/ and move Discourse to https://forum.example.com/

[image] downey: Discourse to https://forum.example.com/ But I read that bad for SEO( two seperate sites for google..)

I don’t believe in SEO. :smile:

Lol but google believe… :smile:

[image] michael_solomon: Lol but google believe… Are you sure? [image] Subdomains and subdirectories Towards the tail end of PubCon, I noticed a spate of articles talking about subdomains and subdirectories in Google, and I wanted to talk more about this subject in case I was unclear. Historically…

Yep.. this article very deprecated.. things changed little bit: http://mainpath.com/putting-end-to-subdomains-vs-subdirectories-debate/ Remember that Google considers sub domains separate from their parent domains: sub.yoursite.com is considered a different site altogether compared to yoursite.com when it comes to search engine authority.

Here is a response from Matt Cutts in email to me: pretty much everyone who has strong opinions on subdomains vs. subfolders doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They sure do have strong opinions anyway though! Sorry, I believe Matt Cutts of Google over your random link :wink:

[image] michael_solomon: Yep.. this article very deprecated OK, here’s a newer (2012) video: [Should I structure my site using subdomains or subdirectories?] Nothing has changed. :smile:

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michael_solomon (Michael Solomon) September 3, 2015, 9:59pm 13

Thanks guys, I’ll just put the blog on subdomain.

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