I’m currently migrating a discussion board to Discourse. I’m still learning about how Discourse is distributed and set up, but I’ve got the data imported and everything configured. After importing all the topics, I now have a long list of mappings from the old topic id to the new Discourse topic id…

Yeah, for that there is this howto [image] Redirect old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs using permalinks packageMigrating to Discourse Redirecting Old Forum URLs to New Discourse URLs using permalinks If you’ve moved from other forum software to Discourse usi…

Add a template or a hook and do a replace rule. see the ssl template in the templates directory for an example.

No I think he means a list of old ID mapping to new IDs. @neil didn’t you add support for this kind of lookup table somewhere?

Thanks for the pointer. Since I’m a Ruby novice and I barely know enough to be dangerous, I’d prefer to keep this separate. It will also be easier (I hope) to update on the fly, if it turns out I forgot to map some rules once I have flipped the switch and turned on the Discourse forum. I’m going t…

[image] peter_backx: I’d prefer to keep this separate. It will also be easier (I hope) to update on the fly It’s definitely a preference. Yesterday I was able to add one rule to one site’s permalinks table because they wanted a certain redirect from their old forums to their new forums that w…

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sam (Sam Saffron) February 1, 2015, 8:58pm 4

Yeah, for that there is this howto

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