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?

Name: Should I structure my site using subdomains or subdirectories?
Uploaded: 2015-09-03T21:53:22Z
Description: OK, here’s a newer (2012) video: [Should I structure my site using subdomains or subdirectories?] Nothing has changed. :smile:

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. [изображение] Use a subfolder (path prefix) to serve Discourse with multiple servers sharing a…

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…

[изображение] 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/

[изображение] 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:

[изображение] michael_solomon: Lol but google believe… Are you sure? [изображение] 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 ca…

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.c…

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:

[изображение] 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:

Blog on subfolder in discourse

Support Self-hosting

downey (Michael Downey) 03.Сентябрь.2015 21:53:22 11

OK, here’s a newer (2012) video:

Nothing has changed.

Тема		Ответов	Просм.
How to run discourse on subdirectory of external domain? Self-hosting unsupported-install	23	6304	13.12.2019
Publish Discourse under URL Self-hosting subfolder	8	392	28.10.2024
Switching forum from subdomain to sub directory Support	10	4480	25.03.2018
SEO of sub-domain Community Building	9	2391	02.06.2022
Moving Discourse from Subdomain to Subfolder Support	7	1660	25.08.2018

Blog on subfolder in discourse

Связанные темы