Correct way to add rewrite rules to Nginx

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Yeah, for that there is this howto

Redirecting old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs

If you’ve moved from other forum software to Discourse using one of our import scripts, then you probably want all your hard-earned Google search results to continue pointing to the same content. Discourse has a built-in way to handle this for you as an alternative to writing nginx rules, using the permalinks lookup table. The permalinks table allows you to set two things: a url to match, and what that url should show. There are a few options for defining where the url should redirect to. Set o…