# Recent Changes Breaking Subfolder Setup?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [February 10, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232 "2020-02-10T23:02:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@hartz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hartz)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/1 "2020-02-10T23:02:44Z")
I’m sorry if I’ve misdiagnosed this, but I’ve recently experienced some issues after an upgrade on a subfolder setup that had been working before, so I think there may have been a regression on some fronts in the recent past? In particular, I am self-hosting Discourse using the subfolder setup described [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subfolder-support-with-docker/30507), which was happily working (AFAICT) until recently.
Currently, when logging in using SSO or when switching to/from anonymous mode (and maybe in other situations I’ve not yet found), I am redirected to `https://my_machine/discourse_path_stuff` , rather than being redirected to `https://my_machine/forum/discourse_path_stuff`. It’s also the case that when I go to `https://my_machine/forum` (the right endpoint), my address bar is rewritten to say `https://my_machine` (with the subfolder removed), though most links seem to resolve to the right places.
Unfortunately, I don’t remember what commit I was running on when things were working, but I’m pretty sure it was under the “2.4.0.beta10” umbrella, and was probably within the last ~10 days. I am currently running on `bd49d4af1a`.
I apologize if I’m just doing something stupid, and I’m happy to help with tracking down the issue if there are suggestions for where I should be looking.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/2 "2020-02-10T23:58:15Z")
Can you share the site URL ? Are you using our SSO protocol or some OAuth2 / omniauth strategy?
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### Author:  [@hartz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hartz)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/3 "2020-02-11T00:16:04Z")
Sure, it’s at [https://py.mit.edu/forum](https://py.mit.edu/forum) (but that’s currently locked off from public viewing). [https://py.mit.edu/forum/login](https://py.mit.edu/forum/login) demonstrates the problem (though I put another NGINX rule in place specifically to 302 [https://py.mit.edu/login](https://py.mit.edu/login) back to [https://py.mit.edu/forum/login](https://py.mit.edu/forum/login) once we started seeing this, which has been a workaround for the SSO part, at least).
We’re using the [Discourse SSO](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) protocol, which was definitely working smoothly before. The handshake still seems to happen fine, just redirecting to the wrong place at the end. The `"return_sso_url"` key in the SSO payload is coming back to our SSO endpoint correctly, though (with `/forum`).
I also tried a rebuild, but that didn’t seem to fix the issue.
Unfortunately, this may be difficult to debug since I’m not really comfortable giving outside people access, since this instance exists for a class, and I don’t feel comfortable sharing student data with outside parties (even if I trust you personally!). But if it helps, I’m happy to try to replicate this setup on a different server that I could give you access to…
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### Author:  [@hartz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hartz)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/4 "2020-02-11T00:28:53Z")
I also see that the link for entering/leaving anonymous mode is using the `window.location.reload()` to reload the page after sending a request to an endpoint to switch to anonymous mode. So that reload would definitely see the rewritten URL (no longer containing `/forum`), which would cause this (not sure if it’s a similar story for the SSO problems).
I’ll take a peek at the recent changesets to see if the thing that (I think?) is rewriting `window.location` is a recent addition.
Also, `Discourse.getURL('/login')` still gives me the right result (with `/forum`).
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### Author:  [@bokos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bokos)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/8 "2020-02-10T18:18:38Z")
The paths reset without subfolder prefix in the address bar of the browser.
Example:
I visit [example.com/forum](http://example.com/forum) → after forum loaded, address bar shows [example.com](http://example.com)
Then I click on “Latest” → navigates to latest and address bar shows [example.com/forum/latest](http://example.com/forum/latest)
I hit refresh on browser, website refreshes and address bar shows [example.com/latest](http://example.com/latest)
When I refresh again while on [example.com/latest](http://example.com/latest), there is a 404 error (because my nginx only routes /forum to discourse).
The link preview at bottom left of the browser show up as [example.com/latest](http://example.com/latest), [example.com/new](http://example.com/new) etc. Refreshing a topic also removes /forum from the url, but then it changes again, back to /forum/t/[…].
I was at version 2.4.0.beta2 previously and don’t remember this issue.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/9 "2020-02-10T19:12:13Z")
Was this install created following [Subfolder support with Docker](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subfolder-support-with-docker/30507) ? Can you link to it?
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### Author:  [@bokos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bokos)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/10 "2020-02-11T17:23:25Z")
Yes, I also tried it on a fresh local install and got the same issue:
app.yml
```plaintext
templates:
- "templates/postgres.template.yml"
- "templates/redis.template.yml"
- "templates/web.template.yml"
expose:
- 80:80
params:
db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english"
version: tests-passed
env:
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
UNICORN_WORKERS: 3
DISCOURSE_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT: /forum
DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: localhost
DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: yyy
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: yyy
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: yyy@yyy.yyy
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: yyy
DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION: login
volumes:
- volume:
host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone
guest: /shared
- volume:
host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log
guest: /var/log
hooks:
after_code:
- exec:
cd: $home/plugins
cmd:
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
run:
- exec:
cd: $home
cmd:
- mkdir -p public/forum
- cd public/forum && ln -s ../uploads && ln -s ../backups
- replace:
global: true
filename: /etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf
from: proxy_pass http://discourse;
to: |
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /forum/$1 break;
proxy_pass http://discourse;
- replace:
filename: /etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf
from: etag off;
to: |
etag off;
location /forum {
rewrite ^/forum/?(.*)$ /$1;
}
```
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/11 "2020-02-11T19:27:05Z")
I can reproduce the issue on my subfolder install. We’ll get this fixed.
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### Author:  [@hartz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hartz)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/12 "2020-02-11T19:32:34Z")
Great, thanks! Glad to know that I’m not crazy.
From poking around in the recent(ish) commits, though, I couldn’t see an obvious point where this rewrite was happening. Would it be possible to get a pointer to where in the code this was/is happening? (I’m in the process of trying to familiarize myself with the codebase).
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/13 "2020-02-11T19:35:44Z")
> [@hartz](#):
>
> Would it be possible to get a pointer to where in the code this was/is happening?
It would be! I’m just not your guy. I’m just “that guy” on the team that happens to have a local subfolder install. But I’m not an engineer. David should be able to point you in the right direction when he starts working on the issue later this week.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/14 "2020-02-11T20:44:48Z")
> [@hartz](#):
>
> where in the code
Almost certainly [this change](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fe0d912b97985a6272e720729aa6197e8e40274f) which was for [this issue](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-docker-blocked-csp-error-with-svg-sprite-when-using-subfolders/139492/9). I’m not sure exactly what the issue is, but I’ll be looking into it :eyes:
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/15 "2020-02-11T23:08:26Z")
Turns out it was completely unrelated to that commit. I’ve found the source of the issue, and a fix is in the pipeline:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8932](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8932)
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/16 "2020-02-11T23:11:46Z")
Excellent detective :man_detective: work @david :clap:
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/17 "2020-02-12T10:04:23Z")
This is now merged - @hartz and @bokos can you confirm that the issue is resolved after an update?
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### Author:  [@hartz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hartz)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/18 "2020-02-12T11:01:15Z")
After a little bit of testing, things do indeed seem to be working again. Thanks, @david !
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recent-changes-breaking-subfolder-setup/141232/19 "2020-02-12T17:13:18Z")