# Attempting to Install Cockpit within a subdirectory

**URL:** https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/attempting-to-install-cockpit-within-a-subdirectory/1296
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 26, 2020, 4:34am UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/attempting-to-install-cockpit-within-a-subdirectory/1296 "2020-03-26T04:34:36Z")
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#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 4:34am UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/attempting-to-install-cockpit-within-a-subdirectory/1296/1 "2020-03-26T04:34:36Z")

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Hi! I learned about Cockpit CMS a few weeks back and have been trying to install it on a digital ocean droplet using apache2 & php 7.2 following [this tutorial](https://websiteforstudents.com/install-cockpit-cms-on-ubuntu-16-04-18-04-18-10-with-apache2-and-php-7-2/) with minor modifications

The modifications I made were:

- my conf is named with my domain

- My conf also looks like this:  
\<VirtualHost \*:80\>  
ServerAdmin [email@email.com](mailto:email@email.com)  
DocumentRoot /var/www/my\_domain/  
ServerName my\_domain.com  
ServerAlias www.my\_domain.com  

The behavior I’ve been getting is:

- Install will load properly
- auth/login will 404

There waas a period of an hour where the dashboard would properly display, but none of the links within it would work (i.e. my\_domain/dashboard/collections would return a 404)

I really hope someone can help me because cockpit seems perfect for what I want to do. If there’s anymore information you need, please let me know. Thank you in advance!