diff --git a/docs/install/other.md b/docs/install/other.md
index 45b50a319..1221b2094 100644
--- a/docs/install/other.md
+++ b/docs/install/other.md
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ docker-compose:
     environment:
       # all the other env
       - SCRIPT_NAME=/<sub path>
+      - JS_REVERSE_SCRIPT_PREFIX=/<sub path>/
       - STATIC_URL=/<www path>/static/
       - MEDIA_URL=/<www path>/media/
     labels:
@@ -56,4 +57,4 @@ apache:
 
 I used two paths `<sub path>` and `<www path>` for simplicity. In my case I have `<sub path> = recipes` and `<www path> = serve/recipes`. One could also change the matching rules of traefik to have everything under one path.
 
-I left out the TLS config in this example for simplicty.
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+I left out the TLS config in this example for simplicty.
diff --git a/recipes/settings.py b/recipes/settings.py
index 3105c67f1..8e39a3b47 100644
--- a/recipes/settings.py
+++ b/recipes/settings.py
@@ -228,6 +228,8 @@ LANGUAGES = [
 # path for django_js_reverse to generate the javascript file containing all urls. Only done because the default command (collectstatic_js_reverse) fails to update the manifest
 JS_REVERSE_OUTPUT_PATH = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "cookbook/static/django_js_reverse")
 
+JS_REVERSE_SCRIPT_PREFIX = os.getenv('JS_REVERSE_SCRIPT_PREFIX', '')
+
 STATIC_URL = os.getenv('STATIC_URL', '/static/')
 STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "staticfiles")