The app.yml changes currently described in this subfolder support how-to, that complements the normal installation , have indeed helped me to install Discourse as a subfolder like example.com/forum instead of subdomain forum.example.com when suitable. However, there was still the problem of port con…

And an Nginx example (file /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com) that seems to be working well for Discourse subfolder (/forum), WordPress site on the same server (root), and https (with SSL/TLS), including permanent redirections http → https, and www. → non-www.: server { listen 127.0.0.10:80;…

Since Nginx 1.9.5 , we can increase speed by enabling HTTP/2 for SSL, adding “http2” to the listen directives. For the previous example: listen 127.0.0.10:443 ssl http2; (…) listen 127.0.0.10:443 default_server ssl http2;

Hello jmg I installed discourse in the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit, EasyEngine(Wordpress framework, php7 and lets encrypt) Installationa have no problem but I couldn’t login through discourse, so I need comment for solving problem. How can I use discourse subfolder without any problem? I can access t…

[image] Serve Discourse from a subfolder (path prefix) instead of a subdomain Installations have no problem but I couldn’t login through discourse (…) I can’t activate the account by the process. Maybe email is not yet configured. See Recommended Email Providers for Discourse .

[image] Serve Discourse from a subfolder (path prefix) instead of a subdomain Maybe email is not yet configured. See Recommended Email Providers for Discourse. I am using Mandrill from MailChimp for Discourse. In your link, they didn’t recommend Mandrill. Does Mandrill have some problem to con…

[image] Serve Discourse from a subfolder (path prefix) instead of a subdomain I am using Mandrill from MailChimp for Discourse. In your link, they didn’t recommend Mandrill. Does Mandrill have some problem to connect with Discourse? I’m not using Mandrill, but SparkPost is working fine for me …

[image] Serve Discourse from a subfolder (path prefix) instead of a subdomain Should I follow long polling base url in the first installation? That setting is needed for all subfolder installations.

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jmg (Juan M. Gonzalez) November 1, 2016, 10:53am 7

I’m not using Mandrill, but SparkPost is working fine for me with Discourse. However, Mandrill should work. Look in your spam folders, just in case.

Did you follow all the steps in the first post of this howto, including long polling base url, etc.?

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