# How to run discourse on subdirectory of external domain?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-run-discourse-on-subdirectory-of-external-domain/134788
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** unsupported-install
**Created:** [December 1, 2019, 8:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-run-discourse-on-subdirectory-of-external-domain/134788 "2019-12-01T08:15:08Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-run-discourse-on-subdirectory-of-external-domain/134788/11 "2019-12-02T04:03:18Z")

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Direct from Matt Cutts. Your SEO “experts” are selling you snake oil.

> [@Blog on subfolder in discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blog-on-subfolder-in-discourse/32883/10):
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> Here is a response from Matt Cutts in email to me: pretty much everyone who has strong opinions on subdomains vs. subfolders doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They sure do have strong opinions anyway though! Sorry, I believe Matt Cutts of Google over your random link wink

Through the years some of the worst, least competent people I’ve _ever_ seen on a team are the “SEO experts”. They are uniformly a disgrace and an embarrassment to the industry.

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