# How to change domain without losing ranking?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [February 10, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-domain-without-losing-ranking/80256 "2018-02-10T13:46:50Z")\
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Easiest would be to run another server that does the redirect. A more complicated way would be to run an external web server that reverse proxies. See the topic about running discourse with other web servers for the start of how you’d do it.

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