Custom permalinks

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What do Permalinks under Customize do?

They are mostly used for people who migrate from other forum software. The idea of a permalink is you can create a link on discourse that will resolve to a particular topic or category. Your link could be /hello-world instead of /t/12345/hello-world.

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Redirect old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs using permalinks

This reference explains how Discourse permalinks redirect old URL paths to new destinations, how permalink normalizations work, and how to test and troubleshoot redirects after a migration or URL structure change. Required user level: Administrator Console access required only when creating permalinks from an importer, script, or Rails console When you migrate from another forum or change your site’s URL structure, old links from search engines,…