Hi all, we changed the Discourse URL from a subdomain (site.company.com) to a folder path (company.com/site). Now we are unable to access the Discourse admin to log in and make OAuth settings changes. Any pointer to help us to access Discourse Admin.

I’m having the same issue. I added /admin or something onto my URL and I got the 404 page instead of the discourse_id error I was getting. I was then able to try using the login button.

I think the steps that require console access at the bottom of this guide should work [imagen] Log back in as admin after locking yourself out with read-only mode or an invalid SSO configuration Site Management bookmark This guide explains how to log back into Discourse as an admin when you have been locked out. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator If you’ve locked yourself out of your Discourse instance with an invalid Discourse Connect (SSO) configuration, append /u/admin-login to the end of your forum’s root URL: https://discourse.example.com/u/admin-login This will take you to an admin login page: [Admin login page] Enter your admin email address and click Send Email.…

I believe that’s the one that ended up helping me. Thank you. I think what happened in my case was I hit the Let’s Encrypt limit? After which one has to wait. Is that still a thing? But so then I switched domains like two or more times. Maybe even once before that issue, and then the Let’s Encrypt limit wasn’t hit. for all I know

¿Cómo acceder a la administración de Discourse tras cambio de URL?

Soporte del producto

Moin 21 Febrero, 2026 09:03 3

Creo que los pasos que requieren acceso a la consola al final de esta guía deberían funcionar

Tema		Respuestas	Vistas
Lost access to Discourse login (no credentials), lost original domain- now trying to migrate to new DO droplet Product Support	9	316	21 Enero 2025
Address Bar changes under subfolder Product Support	1	523	28 Junio 2020
Moving from directory to subdomain Self-hosting subfolder	14	1603	12 Mayo 2020
Put discourse on a sub url Product Support	5	1551	8 Julio 2020
Recent Changes Breaking Subfolder Setup? Bug	14	1456	12 Febrero 2020

¿Cómo acceder a la administración de Discourse tras cambio de URL?

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