diff --git a/app/views/categories/index.html.erb b/app/views/categories/index.html.erb
index b18334da5c0..012c5ff9990 100644
--- a/app/views/categories/index.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/categories/index.html.erb
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
   <% @category_list.categories.each_with_index do |c, index| %>
     <div class='category' itemprop='itemListElement' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/ListItem'>
       <meta itemprop='position' content='<%= index %>'>
-      <meta itemprop='url' content='<%= "#{Discourse.base_url}#{c.url}" %>'>
+      <meta itemprop='url' content='<%= "#{c.url}" %>'>
       <h2>
-        <a href='<%= "#{Discourse.base_url}#{c.url}" %>' itemprop='item'>
+        <a href='<%= "#{c.url}" %>' itemprop='item'>
           <span itemprop='name'><%= c.name %></span>
         </a>
       </h2>
diff --git a/spec/requests/categories_controller_spec.rb b/spec/requests/categories_controller_spec.rb
index 5c6baa466ac..32a6677d83e 100644
--- a/spec/requests/categories_controller_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/categories_controller_spec.rb
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ describe CategoriesController do
       get "/categories"
       expect(response.body).not_to include('AMAZING AMAZING')
     end
+
+    it 'web crawler view has correct urls for subfolder install' do
+      GlobalSetting.stubs(:relative_url_root).returns('/forum')
+      Discourse.stubs(:base_uri).returns("/forum")
+      get '/categories', headers: { 'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Googlebot' }
+      html = Nokogiri::HTML(response.body)
+      expect(html.css('body.crawler')).to be_present
+      expect(html.css("a[href=\"/forum/c/#{category.slug}\"]")).to be_present
+    end
   end
 
   context 'extensibility event' do