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    Article Summary

    What is subfolder hosting?

    A subfolder hosting is a type of website hierarchy under a root domain that uses folders to organize content on a website. A subfolder is the same as a subdirectory, and the names can be used interchangeably.

    The subfolder/subdirectory comes after the root directory or domain name in a URL.

    For example, Document360’s root domain is document360.com. So a subfolder/subdirectory path URL might be document360.com/docs/.

    Most companies host their documentation under a subfolder/subdirectory on their website domain.

    For example: example.com/docs, example.com/support, etc.

    This is because hosting a knowledge base on a subdirectory/subfolder of a website (example.com/docs) rather than a subdomain (docs.example.com) is better for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

    Subfolder/subdirectory hosting can be enabled for Document360 provided domains and mapped custom domains.

    Enabling Subfolder hosting

    To enable the subfolder hosting for your project,

    1_Screenshot-Accessing_the_subfolder_hosting_page

    1. Go to the desired project in Knowledge base portal
    2. Click Settings → Knowledge base site → Custom domain → Sub folder hosting(tab)
    3. By default, the Subfolder path is set to /docs
    4. Click on Enable in the Enable/Disable switch for subfolder hosting

    2_Screenshot-Enabling_the_subfolder_hosting

    Subsequently, if you want to disable the subfolder hosting on your project, you can click on 'Disable'

    Custom sub folder paths

    You can also set up your knowledge base on subfolder/subdirectory paths other than /docs.

    For example, /help, /support, etc.

    3_Screenshot-Changing_subfolder_path

    1. On the Document360 Knowledge base portal
    2. Go to Settings → Knowledge base site → Custom domain → Sub folder hosting(tab)
    3. By default, the Subfolder path is set to /docs
    4. Click inside the field, delete the docs and type in your custom subfolder path (For example, /help)
    5. Click on the Update button on the right
    6. This new custom subfolder would only work in the subfolder hosting setting is enabled in your project

    When setting up other paths, make sure you add the languages associated with each workspace in your project. This configuration varies depending on the different web servers.

    Article preview limitation

    For projects configured with custom domain and subfolder hosting the "Article preview" is not supported yet.

    Web servers

    Here are some of the commonly used web servers

    • Apache HTTP server
    • Nginx server
    • ASP.NET Core server
    • Microsoft - IIS server
    • OpenResty server
    • LiteSpeed server
    • Cloudflare server

    What is a web server?

    A web server stores and delivers the content for a website – such as text, images, video, and application data – to clients that request it. The most common type of client is a web browser program.

    Helpful links

    Determine your web server and add the code snippets (provided for respective web servers below) to your own web server configuration.

    Nginx server

    Apache HTTP

    ASP.NET Core

    Microsoft - IIS

    What happens next?

    Once you have successfully configured the web server, your Knowledge base site is now live on your custom subfolder/subdirectory. However, the existing URL for your project will serve the requests.

    For example, example.document360.io and example.com/docs (if /docs is your folder path) will point to the Knowledge base site.

    This will cause duplicate content in Search engines (Google, Bing, etc.). For this, you will need to enable a URL redirect.

    To enable the redirect from example.document360.io to example.com/docs, please contact us at support@document360.com.

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