The discussion revolves around hosting an HTML page on a Discourse install without breaking the site. riteshsaini wants to maintain the same URL structure for a folder/page that existed on their previous WordPress blog. merefield suggests reconsidering the approach and proposes alternatives like page publishing or hosting on a sub-domain. However, riteshsaini rules out these options due to SEO concerns.
merefield then suggests creating a custom route using a plugin, but notes it will still run within Discourse. michaeld proposes hosting the page elsewhere and using a Cloudflare workers route to make it appear as a folder within the forum. riteshsaini requests a guide on this approach, and michaeld shares a relevant blog post. The discussion ends with lowkey_324 inquiring about the progress and denvergeeks asking for clarification on the desired outcome.
Hi,
As mentioned in my previous posts, I migrated my WordPress blog to Discourse.
There was an HTML page on my site that was hosted inside a folder in public_html
So, its URL was example.com/foldername
Now, I want to host the same folder/page again, but with Discourse.
Where should I put this folder so that I get the same URL structure without breaking my Discourse site?
That’s tricky, because Ember/Rails would try to interpret that as an app route … which doesn’t exist.
I would step back if I were you and reconsider what you are ultimately, functionally trying to achieve and see if there isn’t another way to go about it?
One option is to use this:
Another option might be to host that page on a sub-domain, rather than a folder (and all that entails).
Thanks @merefield for your response.
Page publishing and subdomain won’t work. The only option other than hosting in the folder is hosting the folder on a new domain, which won’t be good for SEO as I won’t have all the authority of my actual domain.
Is there any way to fulfill my purpose using a plugin?
Well you can create a new route in a plugin and put whatever you want on it.
But a simple version of that will still run “inside” Discourse.
Take a look at my Word Cloud or Community Network plugin code to see how that is done.
Okay, I will. Thank you
You could also host it elsewhere and use a Cloudflare workers route to make it look like a folder within your forum.
I don’t know how to do that. Is there any guide for it? Please share 
Google is your friend…!
Did you have any luck with this?
@lowkey_324 what is it (specifically) that you want to accomplish?