# Sub-sub category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sub-sub-categoria/404859
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 9, 2026, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sub-sub-categoria/404859 "2026-06-09T16:08:35Z")
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### Author: ![Iury\_Batista\_Araujo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c77e96/32.png) [@Iury\_Batista\_Araujo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Iury_Batista_Araujo)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2026, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sub-sub-categoria/404859/1 "2026-06-09T16:08:36Z")

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Is it possible to have a category within a subcategory?

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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sub-sub-categoria/404859/2 "2026-06-09T16:14:36Z")

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yes, this needs to be configured via ssh into your host server

> [@Number of Subcategories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/number-of-subcategories/146632/11):
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> You need to have access to the server where Discourse is running. If you’re hosted somewhere, you’ll need to ask whoever is running the server to do this for you. cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c SiteSetting.max\_category\_nesting = 3 exit exit