what is ASKBOT_URL setting supposed to do?

what is the setting ASKBOT_URL setting supposed to do?

###########################
#
#   this will allow running your forum with url like http://site.com/forum
#
#   ASKBOT_URL = 'forum/'
#
ASKBOT_URL = '' #no leading slash, default = '' empty string

My requirement is to — host askbot in a subpath like: mysite.com/forum
And mysite.com/ will host some another webapp(say, a wordpress CMS)

Basically I'm running multiple webapps under the same domain, but each webapp is hosted within a unique sub-path.

Thanks.

Like you might have suspected, this is for hosting askbot at sub-url.

You might also need to add FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME setting to keep the url prefix of the original request.

Here is a blog post explaining how this can be done (there are other posts too):

http://lazylabs.org/blog/django-under-sub-url-powered-by-uwsgi-behind-nginx/

The ASKBOT_URL is used in the urls.py file and is needed for the routing as well as for the correct result of reverse() calls - so that all urls printed in the html output have the prefix.