The discussion revolves around installing Discourse as a subfolder within a Wordpress website. Philipp seeks to migrate from bbpress to Discourse and integrate it under the same domain, www.mydomain.com/forum. Several users provide input on the feasibility of this approach.
Chopper and jmg point to existing guides on subfolder installations, including subfolder support with Docker and Discourse in a subfolder on multiple servers sharing a domain.
However, Falco cautions that subfolder installations add complexity and potential bugs, and jmg notes that subdomains are generally easier and recommended. Despite this, jmg also mentions that subfolder installations on the same virtual server as the rest of the site are relatively straightforward.
Hi!
I am currently running a Wordpress website with a forum based on bbpress.
I am thinking about migrating to Discourse.
Currently my forum is integrated seemlessly. Its domain is www.mydomain.com/forum
So far all Discourse installations I’ve seen are available under an own subdomain such as meta.discourse.org
I wonder if it’s possible to install discourse and set it’s root to www.mydomain.com/forum
Has anyone tried this?
Thanks, Philipp
Check this post :
Keep in mind subfolder install are possible but aren’t encouraged. You are adding a bunch of complexity and getting exposed to more possible bugs for no good reason.
For Discourse on a different server than the rest of the website, which is a frequent installation, subfolder seems especially complex (anyway there is a howto) and subdomain is much easier and recommended.
On the other hand, for Discourse on the same virtual server than the rest of the site, subfolder is not so difficult. See the howto mentioned on post 2.
Of course the easiest Discourse installation is the normal one, subdomain.