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…

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.

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. [image] 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 w…

[image] 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 …

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

Discourse sign in redirects to root directory instead of subfolder

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) December 6, 2025, 5:45am 4

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

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Discourse sign in redirects to root directory instead of subfolder

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