diff --git a/src/job/jobHandler.ts b/src/job/jobHandler.ts
index f0f8743cb..5b5a7ae3a 100644
--- a/src/job/jobHandler.ts
+++ b/src/job/jobHandler.ts
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ export abstract class JobHandler {
     // TODO: Can empty string check be removed?
     if (pathPrefix || pathPrefix === '') {
       this.currJob.payload.pathPrefix = pathPrefix;
+      //sets mutPrefix to the full pathPrefix unless server user is in the path (I believe this only happens in a subset of cases when docs-worker-xlarge is the server-user)
       const mutPrefix = pathPrefix.split(`/${server_user}`)[0];
       this.currJob.payload.mutPrefix = mutPrefix;
     }
diff --git a/src/job/productionJobHandler.ts b/src/job/productionJobHandler.ts
index 6190cc018..e1529b5c5 100644
--- a/src/job/productionJobHandler.ts
+++ b/src/job/productionJobHandler.ts
@@ -141,22 +141,15 @@ export class ProductionJobHandler extends JobHandler {
   }
 
   getPathPrefix(): string {
-    try {
-      if (this.currJob.payload.prefix && this.currJob.payload.prefix === '') {
-        return this.currJob.payload.urlSlug ?? '';
-      }
-      if (this.currJob.payload.urlSlug) {
-        if (this.currJob.payload.urlSlug === '') {
-          return this.currJob.payload.prefix;
-        } else {
-          return `${this.currJob.payload.prefix}/${this.currJob.payload.urlSlug}`;
-        }
-      }
-      return this.currJob.payload.prefix;
-    } catch (error) {
-      this.logger.save(this.currJob._id, error).then();
-      throw new InvalidJobError(error.message);
+    const prefix = this.currJob.payload.urlSlug
+      ? `${this.currJob.payload.prefix}/${this.currJob.payload.urlSlug}`
+      : this.currJob.payload.prefix;
+    if (this.currJob.payload.action == 'automatedTest') {
+      const titleArray = this.currJob.title.split(' ');
+      const commitHash = titleArray[titleArray.length - 5];
+      return `${prefix}/smokeTests/${commitHash}`;
     }
+    return prefix;
   }
 
   private async purgePublishedContent(makefileOutput: Array<string>): Promise<void> {