# צריך עזרה בהפניה מחדש לאחר שינוי הדומיין של פורום ה-Discourse שלי
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964 "2023-08-21T01:29:06Z")
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### Author:  [@Anirudh\_Dutta\_Gupta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anirudh_Dutta_Gupta)
#### Post date: [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/1 "2023-08-21T01:29:06Z")
After moving my Discourse forum to a new instance and URL, I need help with setting up domain redirection.
I want links from the old domain to redirect to the new domain. For example, a link like [https://olddomain.com/t/topic/89520](https://olddomain.com/t/topic/89520) should redirect to [Parked at Loopia](https://newdomain.com/t/topic/89520).
I’ve heard about using a 301 redirect, but I’m struggling to locate the Nginx configuration directory on my server. Any alternative solutions or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/2 "2023-08-21T01:59:59Z")
Hi @Anirudh_Dutta_Gupta 👋 welcome to Meta 🙂
Have you seen this topic yet:
> [@Redirect old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs using permalinks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-forum-urls-to-new-discourse-urls/20930/1):
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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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### Author:  [@Anirudh\_Dutta\_Gupta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anirudh_Dutta_Gupta)
#### Post date: [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/3 "2023-08-21T10:15:15Z")
Thank you @Lilly. I’d like to know if permalinks can handle a full domain change too. Just to clarify, we’re moving from [abc.domain1.com](http://abc.domain1.com) to [xyz.domain2.com](http://xyz.domain2.com). Both the subdomain and the domain are changing. I’ve been reading through [this discussion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-to-wordpress-redirect-questions/87031/2) and wanted to confirm:
> Are you trying to redirect an existing Discourse topic to an external URL? That’s not what permalinks are designed to do. I’m pretty sure that you can’t redirect anything under /t.
> If you want people who visit [https://hoidap.cheng.vn/t/cach-cua-do-nu-bao-binh-don-gian/70](https://hoidap.cheng.vn/t/cach-cua-do-nu-bao-binh-don-gian/70) 2 to be redirected to [https://cunghoangdao.info](https://cunghoangdao.info) then I think your best bet is to edit the post and tell people to click the link to go to the other site.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/4 "2023-08-21T10:24:39Z")
So you set up
- a generic redirect on [abc.domain1.com/anything](http://abc.domain1.com/anything) to [xyz.domain2.com/anything](http://xyz.domain2.com/anything)
- permalink redirects on [xyz.domain2.com/foo/bar](http://xyz.domain2.com/foo/bar) to /t/1234
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### Author:  [@Anirudh\_Dutta\_Gupta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anirudh_Dutta_Gupta)
#### Post date: [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/5 "2023-08-21T10:51:33Z")
Thank you @RGJ. How do I go about with the generic redirect? Both the current and the previous forums are on Discourse.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/6 "2023-08-21T11:33:18Z")
Assuming you’re going to remove the current forum, it’s just a normal Apache or nginx redirect.
For nginx
```plaintext
server {
server_name original.example.com;
location / {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ https://new.example.com/$1 permanent;
}
}
```
or Apache
```plaintext
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://new.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
```
I had missed the part where you’re only moving Discourse and not migrating. Since you’re only moving domains, you don’t need the permalink redirects.
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### Author:  [@Anirudh\_Dutta\_Gupta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anirudh_Dutta_Gupta)
#### Post date: [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/7 "2023-08-21T11:35:22Z")
That’s what I was originally thinking, but I cannot find the nginx folder anywhere in the /etc directory. Am I looking in the wrong place?
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/8 "2023-08-21T11:38:17Z")
That’s because there is currently a Discourse install there, which has the nginx in the container.
It would be easiest to point the old hostname to the new instance and handle the redirection there see [URL rewrite for domain change in permalinks - #7 by modius](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-rewrite-for-domain-change-in-permalinks/58507/7)
Alternatively, remove the Discourse install and set up nginx on the old instance
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### Author:  [@Anirudh\_Dutta\_Gupta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anirudh_Dutta_Gupta)
#### Post date: [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/9 "2023-08-21T15:11:40Z")
Thank you @RGJ for the guidance. I just ended up doing a domain level direct from our domain name provider, and that worked. The old links are redirecting to the new links correctly.
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### Author:  [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)
#### Post date: [21 באוגוסט, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/10 "2023-08-21T15:17:39Z")
Here is the method I use for a full redirection after a domain change, I mixed a few solutions offered in this forum.
in the app.yml, at the end I add the after\_web\_config and after\_ssl blocks :
```yml
hooks:
after_code:
- exec:
cd: $home/plugins
cmd:
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
after_web_config:
- replace:
filename: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
from: /sendfile.+on;/
to: |
server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
sendfile on;
- file:
path: /etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse_redirect_1.conf
contents: |
server {
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;
server_name old-domain.com;
return 301 $scheme://new-domain.com$request_uri;
}
after_ssl:
- replace:
filename: "/etc/runit/1.d/letsencrypt"
from: /--keylength/
to: "-d old-domain.com --keylength"
## Any custom commands to run after building
run:
- exec: echo "Beginning of custom commands"
## If you want to set the 'From' email address for your first registration, uncomment and change:
## After getting the first signup email, re-comment the line. It only needs to run once.
#- exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='info@unconfigured.discourse.org'"
- exec: echo "End of custom commands"
```
It will redirect the old links to the new forums, without a SSL issue.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [20 בספטמבר, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-redirection-after-changing-the-domain-of-my-discourse-forum/275964/11 "2023-09-20T15:18:15Z")
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