I recently migrated a Vanilla Forums-based discussion board to Discourse (which I’m super excited about), and I’m looking for input on best practices when forwarding or redirecting URLs from the old platform to the new platform. I’m not expecting to achieve a 1-to-1 mapping between the two systems,…

Best practices for URL forwarding/rewriting from a previous (non-Discourse) system

kayone (Keivan) October 30, 2014, 4:39pm 4

It seems like there is no dedicated search page, so the 404 page might be your best bet besides doing the mapping.

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