Publish Discourse under URL

[Taste-OF-IT]

Hi,
i have a selfhosted installation of discourse with an nginx in front of discourse in docker. I can reach it by forum.my.tld. I also have installed Wordpress, which is also reachable from public. I now want to integrate Discourse as part of the URL like www.myWebsite.tld/forum.
Is that possible and when how?
Thx

[merefield (Robert)]

Use a subfolder (path prefix) to serve Discourse with multiple servers sharing a domain

Let’s say you have a WordPress blog on http://=DOMAIN=, and you want to serve your Discourse forums (which run on a different server) from http://=DOMAIN==PATH=. How do you do that? Note: This won’t work for serving multiple Discourse instances from different folders on the same domain. You need to use different subdomains so that each site can have different cookies. You’re going to need to send all traffic for the domain to one place that can route traffic to the correct server. In thi…

[Taste-OF-IT]

Hi Robert,
and thanks for linking to the other post, but it doesnt help me. I dont use fastly. I have a server with 2 Discourse Docker Container, test (test.domain.tld) and prod (prod.domain.tld). On another Server runs wordpress with e.g. mywp.tld. Now i want to service the Forum under mywp.tld/forum.
Is that possible?
I guess i have to do something like changing the prod.domain.tld to forum.mywp.tld in dns as an alias and on the webserver i do a rewrite, maybe?
Has any conrete solution?
Thx

[merefield (Robert)]

Sorry about that.

I shared the wrong link unintentionally

Serve Discourse from a subfolder (path prefix) instead of a subdomain

Discourse Official Statement about Subfolder setup We support subfolder setups for our hosted customers at the enterprise level and up. Due to heavy technical setup complexity we strongly recommend you do not use this setup unless you are very experienced in custom subfolder setups. It is critical you have a deep understanding of NGINX setup in the Discourse Docker container Secure original IP forwarding using custom headers in the proxy chain Rate limiting in front proxy server I…

[Taste-OF-IT]

Oh ok Sounds complicated, but what means “…unless you are very experienced in …” in Detail. So i would see the solution to make it work and than would decide to configure it or not. Is there any selfhosted Howto for that? The reason behind that is seo. I guess its better to have the forum in the path of the primary domain and not using it as a subdomain. Or is this today not decisive?
thx

[merefield (Robert)]

That is the how-to

[Moin]

@Taste-OF-IT

The reason behind that is seo. I guess its better to have the forum in the path of the primary domain and not using it as a subdomain. Or is this today not decisive?

You can search here for subfolder and seo and will find a lot of statements like

@HAWK

I believe we have a follow up post in the works which will address some of the technicalities, but in short – subfolder installs have no SEO benefit over subdomain installs.

@codinghorror

There is no SEO difference between subfolder and subdomain — except subfolder is an order of magnitude more difficult to set up and maintain.

@pfaffman

Most everyone now agrees that there is no SEO advantage to using a subfolder.

I think there are also some details in Handling SEO for Discourse Communities | Blog

[Taste-OF-IT]

Many thanks for the information. Meanwhile i searched too. I cant say what is right or wrong or have a better option for SEO, because the algo is a kind of black box. I also found good articles which says a subdirectory is better and they have anaylses. They also say, that google says that there is no difference, but tracking this, shows the oposit. Here are the link, which seems to be from this year: SEO Subdomain or Subdirectory

[Taste-OF-IT]

Yes obviously, thanks.