Hi all, we changed the Discourse URL from a subdomain (site.company.com) to a folder path (company.com/site). Now we are unable to access the Discourse admin to log in and make OAuth settings changes. Any pointer to help us to access Discourse Admin.

I’m having the same issue. I added /admin or something onto my URL and I got the 404 page instead of the discourse_id error I was getting. I was then able to try using the login button.

I think the steps that require console access at the bottom of this guide should work [image] Log back in as admin after locking yourself out with read-only mode or an invalid SSO configuration Site Management bookmark This guide explains how to log back into Discourse as an admin when you have been locked out. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator If you’ve locked yourself out of your Discourse instance with an invalid Discourse Connect (SSO) configuration, append /u/admin-login to the end of your forum’s root URL: https://discourse.example.com/u/admin-login This will take you to an admin login page: [Admin login page] Enter your admin email address and click Send Email.…

I believe that’s the one that ended up helping me. Thank you. I think what happened in my case was I hit the Let’s Encrypt limit? After which one has to wait. Is that still a thing? But so then I switched domains like two or more times. Maybe even once before that issue, and then the Let’s Encrypt limit wasn’t hit. for all I know

How to access Discourse admin after URL change?

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I think the steps that require console access at the bottom of this guide should work

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How to access Discourse admin after URL change?

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