# Custom permalinks

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalinks/56867
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 3, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalinks/56867 "2017-02-03T15:41:38Z")
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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-permalinks/56867/2 "2017-02-03T17:37:36Z")

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See:

> [@What do Permalinks under Customize do?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-permalinks-under-customize-do/31783/2):
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> 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-old-forum-urls-to-new-discourse-urls/20930):
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> Redirecting Old Forum URLs to New Discourse URLs using permalinks If you’ve moved from other forum software to Discourse using [one of our import scripts](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/main/script/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 a…

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