# Admin user export does not work in subfolder setup

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-user-export-does-not-work-in-subfolder-setup/396783
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [February 23, 2026, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-user-export-does-not-work-in-subfolder-setup/396783 "2026-02-23T11:09:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2026, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-user-export-does-not-work-in-subfolder-setup/396783/1 "2026-02-23T11:09:38Z")

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The short-url link to a user export on the user admin page does not work when running in a subfolder setup, it returns a “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private” page.

The link does work from within the PM that is sent.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/3/9/d39b70f92e0978d1040279f58026aa085ecea3df.png)

When pressing F5 on the “Not found” page, or when right-clicking the link, the file downloads as well, so this looks like an Ember routing issue.

Line: [discourse/frontend/discourse/admin/components/admin-user-exports-table.gjs at 6759ad71cac395697b2978eb34fcfbf1162d30d1 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/6759ad71cac395697b2978eb34fcfbf1162d30d1/frontend/discourse/admin/components/admin-user-exports-table.gjs#L99)

Quick (and, I guess, dirty) fix: add `target="_blank"`

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-user-export-does-not-work-in-subfolder-setup/396783/2 "2026-02-23T17:08:04Z")

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Thanks @RGJ 👍 That’ll be fixed by

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37996](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37996)

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2026, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-user-export-does-not-work-in-subfolder-setup/396783/5 "2026-02-28T07:00:18Z")

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