# Last update breaks permalink for categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/last-update-breaks-permalink-for-categories/297435>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** subfolder\
**Created:** [March 1, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/last-update-breaks-permalink-for-categories/297435 "2024-03-01T10:03:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/last-update-breaks-permalink-for-categories/297435/12 "2024-03-01T15:18:09Z")

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> [@RGJ](#):
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> So you didn’t mention the fact that your entire forum is a subfolder install.

Yeah. I can’t begin to wrap my head around how permalinks and permalink\_normalizations would work in a subfolder install.

> [@pama](#):
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> Completly clean the DB to re-import some other forum data from scratch, and now is not working.

And it’s always been a subfolder install?

And nothing else changed when you re-ran the import script?

It seems most likely that something is different in your script.

Wait. `https://meta.discourse.org/category/67` redirects to [Announcements - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/c/announcements/67), so . . . no, but there’s a spec that shows permalinks override that `/category` redirect and it’s 4-5 years old.

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/spec/requests/categories_controller_spec.rb#L40-L52>

So I think I would create some category redirects by hand next to figure out what is going on (like `/category/mycategory` or other thing that doesn’t even have numbers in it)

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