I’m coming to the end of my trial and I think I’d like to start out on a Basic Plan but potentially upgrade to a Standard Plan later, partly for the custom domain. It looks like I’d have to buy the domain separately and connect it to my Discourse forum somehow, which I could probably figure out, but then I’m wondering if I’d be able to redirect the old domain to the new one? I found instructions for how to do this if migrating from other forum software to Discourse, but it looks very complicated and possibly not even what I’m looking for.

I think this is the guide you are looking for [image] Configure your domain name for hosted Discourse Hosted Customers bookmark This guide explains how to change the domain name of your Discourse-hosted site, whether you want to switch to a different discourse.group address or configure a custom domain you own. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Every site hosted by Discourse receives an address in the discourse.group domain when it’s created (for example, mycommunity.discourse.group). You can change the domain name of your site at any time from the Manage account page in the admin … My favorite part: [image]Configure your domain name for hosted Discourse Wait for the change to process and we’ll take care of the rest.

Thanks! Do you think “we’ll take care of the rest” includes setting up a redirect from the old example.discourse.group to forum.example.com then? (It’s not obvious to me, particularly as that guide seems to be talking about customers starting fresh on the Standard Plan or above, rather than moving from a .discourse.group domain on the Basic Plan to a custom domain on a Standard Plan while trying to keep the domain pointing to the same forum.)

[image] CaptainJ: Thanks! Do you think “we’ll take care of the rest” includes setting up a redirect from the old example.discourse.group to forum.example.com then? We do support this, though I can’t recall if it’s automatic or if you need to email us (team@discourse.org, or PM @team here) to set it up.

[image] Michael Brown: ough I can’t recall if it’s automatic or if you need to em We had a similar but slightly different question, where we have actually had our community running for over a year without taking advantage of the custom domain that comes with our business plan. We are interested in taking advantage now, however, it is important to us to make sure that: 1 - Prior interlinking between different topics in the forum would still work. We have many posts that link to other topics. 2 - The links that we have previously sent over email would still work. Really scared to make any changes that could potentially break the above. :grimacing: Would the redirects be set up by Discourse to make it a smooth transition? Would we need to do anything else in addition to selecting the domain and emailing? Or could there be potential issues?

[image] marvi: Would the redirects be set up by Discourse to make it a smooth transition? Yes, we have this process nailed down pretty well to make it as transparent as possible.

If I switch to a custom domain, is it easy to set up a redirect?

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supermathie (Michael Brown) December 30, 2024, 6:48pm 6

Yes, we have this process nailed down pretty well to make it as transparent as possible.

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