When I grant admin access, the link that gets sent in the e-mail is incorrect. Instead of being:
http://mysite/forum/path/to_confirm
it is:
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This might be a valid sub folder bug @neil?
Yes, the code is explicitly using the no-subfolder URL: base_url_no_prefix 
I’ll fix.
EDIT: fixed
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Possible the same problems:
- on badges notifications - incorrect url
- on FAQ button - it returns wrong location, so it’s not possible to return from FAQ url back to the forum.
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- “click here to unsubscribe” in digest email is incorrect too.
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Thanks @Ivan_Rapekas. I fixed the unsubscribe link in digest email, and found that the “About” link was wrong here:
But the FAQ one is correct there and in hamburger menu. Where did you find the FAQ button with the wrong url?
This is an example of hard-coded URLs in our translation files, which is something we need to stop doing.
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Hi @neil , thank you for the fast reply and actions!
I found that emails may contain wrong url or not, it depends on the kind of notification. For example:
- email with
[forum name] Summaryin the subject hasincorrectURL - email with
[forum name] [category] topic namein the subject hascorrectURL - email with
[forum name] [PM] Backup completed ...in the subject hascorrectURL - email with
[forum name] [PM] Data export ...in the subject hascorrectURL
I meant FAQ button from the menu, but the same problem can be reproduced in the /about section.
My forum works in the folder /discuss. I set external URLs for all buttons here: <base_url>/discuss/about
- If I click FAQ link, it redirects me to <some_external_url>. When I click ‘Back’ button in the browser, get endless 302 redirect. When I click ‘Back’ button again, it returns me to forum as I expected in the previous step.
- If I left-mouse click Terms of Service link from the picture above the first time, it redirects me to correctly to <external_tos_url>
- But when I click to Guidelines first and then to TOS link, it redirects me to /discuss/terms-of-use page,which does not exist in my case.
- Privace section has the same problem. In other words, it’s unable to access TOS and Privacy from Guidelines page.
Sorry for my Joda-style english 
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Which url in the email is incorrect?
About the other problem, I can see it happening on your site but can’t reproduce it unfortunately.
I’ll fix some of the other links.
Another subfolder bug: All links starting with /my are broken in subfolder.
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Here it is:
Currently I resolve this using .htaccess rules.
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Hi, there is another issue with subfolder.
My website is located at https://www.example.com
The forum is located at https://www.example.com/discuss
I made a custom html header in the default theme:
<a href="https://www.example.com/faq">FAQ</a>
When I click the link in my header, it redirects me to
https://www.example.com/discuss/faq instead of https://www.example.com/faq
It seems, that Discourse handles external links in custom header as part of forum.
I fixed that unsubscribe link.
For your custom html header, you’re using a route that the exists in the Discourse app, so the javascript is handling it. Maybe adding target='_blank' to that link would work, or change it to a path that’s different that one of Discourse’s routes.
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But, shouldn’t Discourse detect only route changes for https://www.example.com/discuss/ paths? Why does it react on changes with https://www.example.com/ prefix ?
The same problem persists for all our menus, including, for instance, https://www.example.com/case-studies that does not exist in discourse as a route. In this case Discourse opens https://www.example.com/discuss/case-studies on click by link and shows 404 Page “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private”.
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