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 should redirect to Parked at Loopia . I’ve heard about using a 301 …

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.

Hi @Anirudh_Dutta_Gupta :wave: welcome to Meta :slight_smile: Have you seen this topic yet: [image] Redirect old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs using permalinks packageMigrating to Discourse Redirecting Old Forum URLs to New Discourse URLs using permalinks …

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 to xyz.domain2.com . Both the subdomain and the domain are changing. I’ve been reading through this discussion and wanted to confirm: Are you trying to redirect …

So you set up a generic redirect on abc.domain1.com/anything to xyz.domain2.com/anything permalink redirects on xyz.domain2.com/foo/bar to /t/1234

Thank you @RGJ . How do I go about with the generic redirect? Both the current and the previous forums are on Discourse.

Assuming you’re going to remove the current forum, it’s just a normal Apache or nginx redirect. For nginx server { server_name original.example.com; location / { rewrite ^/(.*)$ https://new.example.com/$1 permanent; } } or Apache RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://ne…

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?

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 Alternatively, remove the Discourse i…

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 : hooks: after_code: - exec: cd: $home/plugins cmd: - git clone https://g…

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Lilly (Lillian ) August 21, 2023, 1:59am 2

Hi @Anirudh_Dutta_Gupta welcome to Meta

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Need Help with Redirection after changing the domain of my Discourse Forum

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