Is there a way to host dynamic pages with Discourse? I looked into the Landing Page Plugin, but it’s for static pages. I don’t mind having Discourse on the main domain itself instead of a subfolder, although I know I can build dynamic pages in subfolders then. Is there any alternative or a way to do this by keep Discourse in the main dir itself and adding dynamic pages to a folder? What I mean is, I’m on the domain www.example.com, which has Discourse running on it. Can I create a separate folder on the same domain where I can host dynamic pages, like www.example.com/dynamic-folder/index.php?

Discourse doesn’t use php, so you can’t host php files with discourse. You can do anything that php can do with a plugin, however. It’s very different than php, though.

As i red the question is can a directory, as part of an url, be outside Discourse or Docker (docker is very difficult consept to understand for me) and therefor use PHP. Or — can, for example, a reverse proxy redirect calls so that directory part is taken care by something like LAMP, and everything else goes to Discourse. Then it is only matter of two backends, right? Actually I’m quite sure, in theory anyway, that could be made using Varnish. What I don’t know, among really many things, what kind of conflict will happen if/when that url is called inside Discourse. Or is it even then only matter of redirects.

However — that question is off topic in this category, because solution would be something else than standard.

[image] Mihir: I looked into the Landing Page Plugin, That’s not true, it has the Home Pages extension which allows for dynamic pages. [image] Landing Pages Plugin small_airplane Plugin Just to point out you can now display arbitrary pages within Discourse using the Landing Pages Plugin in combination with a couple of extensions:

Okay, need to give it a shot then :))

Actually, I guess I should give it a try on a dummy community first to check if it works fine and doesn’t cause any issues or conflicts.

What is it that you need your interactive page to do?

It was supposed to handle some API queries mainly :))

So these api inquiries have to do with data in discourse? Can you be more specific.

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MihirR (Mihir) December 29, 2024, 10:11am 10

Thanks @merefield, I have installed the plugin and will update you asap.

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