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 /ad…

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 itsel…

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

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

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 ext…

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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tshenry (Taylor) October 21, 2021, 6:59pm 8

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?

Topic		Replies	Views
Redirect from Discourse to Outside Support	11	1606	April 15, 2020
Redirecting Problems Support	10	1173	May 11, 2019
Redirect Article- possible? Support	14	1888	July 4, 2022
Redirecting the old forum urls to the discourse Support unsupported-install	18	1519	September 11, 2020
Feature interest survey: "go" permalinks Feature	10	1685	February 27, 2020

Problem with permalinks

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