# Why was subdirectory support removed?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-was-subdirectory-support-removed/19233
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 24, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-was-subdirectory-support-removed/19233 "2014-08-24T18:55:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mikehearn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikehearn)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-was-subdirectory-support-removed/19233/1 "2014-08-24T18:55:32Z")
I have an EV SSL certificate that is only valid for two domains (with and without www), not all subdomains. It’d be nice if I could run Discourse with this certificate but it’d require running as a subdirectory on the main site ([www.example.com/forum](http://www.example.com/forum)). I saw that this feature used to exist but was removed. Why is that? Is it really so hard to support an arbitrary base URL?
I know I can buy a cheap non-EV cert for my subdomain, but it seems a shame that I have to spend more money when I already have a perfect servicable certificate.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-was-subdirectory-support-removed/19233/2 "2014-08-24T19:25:49Z")
Virtually no demand for it. Adds complexity to code. No customers running this way.
If we get a customer at the enterprise level that insists, we will make sure it works, but that has not happened yet.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-was-subdirectory-support-removed/19233/3 "2015-06-01T05:00:55Z")
Running in a subfolder is supported now. Easy if you are running everything on the same set of servers. Requires forward proxying of subfolder traffic if you are not.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-was-subdirectory-support-removed/19233/4 "2015-06-01T05:01:00Z")