So I really love the permalinks feature of Discourse. For example, I’ve been collecting photos and videos at https://fortmactech.com/riverbreak – which forwards to the longer URL of the actual topic. The problem I’m running into is that when that’s posted on Facebook and someone clicks it, Faceboo…

So I think this is something that can probably be done with the Permalinks Normalization setting, but I can’t figure out the regex. Basically remove anything after and including ?fbclid= I think.

Interested in this too. This is polluting our Google Analytics data.

So I’ve been able to solve it with a Cloudflare page rule: [Screen Shot 2021-04-14 at 9.27.33 AM] But would rather do it at the discourse level instead.

How are you forwarding https://fortmactech.com/riverbreak to https://fortmactech.com/t/river-drone-videos-photos-2021/818? It seems that adding query parameters to the topic URL doesn’t cause any issues. For example, this should work: https://fortmactech.com/t/river-drone-videos-photos-2021/818?fbc…

I’ve sort of solved it now by using Cloudflare. I have turned off the Cloudflare page rule for a while if you want to see the 404 happening. Try this link as an example: https://fortmactech.com/riverbreak?fbclid=IwAR1E9PoBxuWURZRJlA4D0VrnESbfjGfC2xKuvVJzCRUmIJy7ZRKMkkH8I-U I added it like thi…

Thanks for the details. It seems that query parameters break Discourse permalink redirection. I’m not sure if that is expected to happen.

[image] riking: it’s heavily used for permalinks that have e.g. forum.php?topic_id=1234 That makes sense. Is there a way to “transform” an incoming URL before it’s analyzed by the permalinks code? Is that the “Permalinks Normalization” feature?

Yes that’s exactly what permalink normalizations is for :smiley:

Can someone give me an example of how I would get rid of ?fbclid= and anything after it, using the Permalinks Normalization setting? Thanks :slight_smile:

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riking (Kane York) April 14, 2021, 5:25pm 8

It’s definitely expected, it’s heavily used for permalinks that have e.g. forum.php?topic_id=1234.

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