I configured my discourse forum to be in a subfolder(migrated from subdomain to subfolder which entailed moving from hosted by discourse to self hosted) by following the guidelines on doing that. Now everything works, except for the fact that if I login(regular login), it logs me in and redirects to the root directory instead of the subfolder. E.G I login @ www.website.com/forum/login and it redirects to www.website.com instead of www.website.com/forum after login.

Most everyone thinks a subdomain is better, but you do you. Did you follow Serve Discourse from a subfolder (path prefix) instead of a subdomain

Yes I did Also, using subfolder for seo reasons.

Two more people having the same issue here Serve Discourse from a subfolder, Login redirects to root path

There is no seo reasons :man_shrugging:

I was informed that having forum in root domain level will be good seo-wise for my main service(example.com). Are you saying that is false?

There has been a lot of discussion about this. My personal opinion is that it indeed does not matter. [图片]SEO of sub-domain Gary Illyes, the guy who handles all of this stuff at Google has said on many occasions that subfolder has no benefit over subdomain. In his keynote at Pubcon 2018 he went to far so say that Google doesn’t care. Yet still we regularly get posts here from users insisting they need subfolder because they read it somewhere on a blog, or have some anecdotal experience which contradicts expert opinion.

[图片] RGJ: There has been a lot of discussion about this. My personal opinion is that it indeed does not matter. And mostly people stopped discussing this some years ago. The likelihood that you’ll get a significant seo drop of because all of your content has moved is pretty assured. It’s unlikely that it’ll be better after you have recovered to your current levels in some months.

Same issue as @Science_Geeks reported after updating to the latest build.

Discourse 登录将重定向到根目录而非子文件夹

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 2025 年12 月 5 日 16:44 2

大多数人都认为子域名更好，但你随意。

你是否阅读了从子文件夹（路径前缀）而不是子域名提供 Discourse 服务

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