# Install Discourse as a subdirectory with existing Nginx
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [October 28, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710 "2018-10-28T20:24:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Mayus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mayus)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710/1 "2018-10-28T20:24:32Z")
Hello, I’m new to Discourse and would really like to have it on my server. I also have a nginx configuration that allows to connect to a wordpress website. I do not want to have a subdomain, I just want to have this URL: [snapecraft.ddns.net/forum](http://snapecraft.ddns.net/forum)
Because my server doesn’t support PostgreSQL I decided to host the Database on an external free webserver.
How would I do the nginx configuration and the configuration of the DB? Are there some guides?
Thank you so much in advance.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710/2 "2018-10-28T21:30:14Z")
The first question to answer is whether you can run docker on that server. Do you have ssh access as root?
A subfolder install is fine with another instance of nginx but you will still need to install docker with nginx and postgres within the container.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710/3 "2018-10-29T00:20:53Z")
> [@Mayus](#):
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> Because my server doesn’t support PostgreSQL I decided to host the Database on an external free webserver.
You almost certainly don’t want to do that.
You should search here for the subfolder instructions. The [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) will have postgres in the container.
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### Author:  [@Mayus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mayus)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710/4 "2018-10-29T11:53:28Z")
Thanks for your answers. Yes, I do have root and ssh access.
It’s not that it doesn’t support postgresql its more that we don’t want another database because we already have mysql. Does postgresql need much performance?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710/5 "2018-10-29T12:02:01Z")
Postgres 9.6 is required. If you follow the unfussy instructions it will be installed inside the docker container with discourse, redis, and nginx.
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### Author:  [@Mayus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mayus)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710/6 "2018-10-29T12:11:47Z")
How would my nginx config look like? (The existing one)
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710/7 "2018-10-29T12:15:57Z")
You would search for the #howto document and follow these instructions: [Serve Discourse from a subfolder (path prefix) instead of a subdomain](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subfolder-support-with-docker/30507)
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### Author:  [@Mayus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mayus)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710/8 "2018-10-29T12:21:50Z")
So I would install it with the standard instructions and then modify the configs?
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### Author:  [@rbrlortie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rbrlortie)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710/9 "2018-10-29T14:24:27Z")
We are using discourse as a subdirectory. It works but had taken a lot of trial and error by our hosting expert.
I do not know the details. I know that he added reverse proxies and proxy passes to our nginx but that’s all I can say. We followed to documentation that [pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman) linked but even then, depending on your stack there’s a lot of customization to do.
I would not recommend unless you have resources to invest into it.
See: [https://www.robotshop.com/community/forum/](https://www.robotshop.com/community/forum/)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-as-a-subdirectory-with-existing-nginx/100710/10 "2018-11-28T14:24:27Z")
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