I’m seeing some odd behavior with permalinks on our site. I have a permalink set up to https://support.glitch.com/office-hours which works from a fresh session (in an incognito window, for instance, or even just a new tab) By “works” I mean it returns a 301 redirect to the location configured in /admin/customize/permalinks as I’d expect I have that link inside a different post on the forum, though, and when that link is followed I get this: [image] The correct page loads on refresh, but as you might imagine this looks pretty unprofessional to our members. Is there some reason I don’t know about that would prevent that from working?

Thanks for the clarification! It does look like we have an example of what you describe in place: https://meta.discourse.org/guide Does that seem to be working the way you would expect?

Permalinks are intended to remap inbound links to your Discourse instance, and are useful when migrating from another platform. They catch inbound traffic and reroute those requests to the new destination, which is why they work when you hit refresh. They’re not going to work within Discourse itself, please use the correct internal URL, rather than the permalink that you’ve created which redirects to it.

Yes, these are for external URL redirection, there is no concept of internal redirection.

I think so. For example it looks like Meta has https://meta.discourse.org/support set up as a permalink to our support category. It looks like we can permalink in the following ways at the moment: [Screen Shot 2021-10-20 at 8.13.30 PM]

Thanks for the replies, y’all - I’m not managing that Discourse instance any more and we no longer “need” this functionality, but it’d be nice to know it’s there. @tshenry it seems to me that your example is what was discussed above as an “external” link, though, right? Taking a request from an external source and redirecting it to the proper Discourse URL - what we were hoping to do would be akin to redirecting Support - Discourse Meta to Issues · discourse/discourse · GitHub (if you all accepted issue reports there, of course), which worked (as I recall) for folks coming into the site from outside, but failed to redirect on the first page load when following a link from a Discourse page.

Ha, I initially thought you meant there was an example on that page :wink: - once I realized you meant that was the example, then yes, that seems to do what we wanted. Thanks!!

Problem with permalinks

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 21, 2021, 3:03am 5

I believe we have internal redirects possible here now yes @tshenry?

Topic		Replies	Views
Redirect from Discourse to Outside Product Support	11	1664	April 15, 2020
Redirecting Problems Product Support	10	1227	May 11, 2019
Redirect Article- possible? Product Support	14	1944	July 4, 2022
Redirecting the old forum urls to the discourse Product Support unsupported-install	18	1599	September 11, 2020
Feature interest survey: "go" permalinks Feature	10	1718	February 27, 2020

Problem with permalinks

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