# Not able to create a permalink with forums/\* address
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-create-a-permalink-with-forums-address/52100
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [October 27, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-create-a-permalink-with-forums-address/52100 "2016-10-27T13:38:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@mrded](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mrded)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-create-a-permalink-with-forums-address/52100/1 "2016-10-27T13:38:35Z")
I’m trying to create a `Permalink` with `forums/general-discussion` url pointing to a `Category`.
Then I try to access it - it gives me an error:
```
AbstractController::ActionNotFound at /forums/general-discussion
The action 'show' could not be found for ForumsController
```
The problem is with routers:
```
Discourse::Application.routes.draw do
...
resources :forums
...
end
```
it processes all /forums/\* requests.
I made a pull request here [Remove useless routing for ForumsController by mrded · Pull Request #4517 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4517)
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-create-a-permalink-with-forums-address/52100/2 "2016-10-27T13:56:46Z")
A permalink shouldn’t accept the “/” character because that’s invalid for a location, because its a delimiter.
One permalink as “general-discussion” should work.
Are you in a subfolder install?
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### Author:  [@mrded](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mrded)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-create-a-permalink-with-forums-address/52100/3 "2016-10-27T14:05:42Z")
Thank you for your answer,
I’m using Permalink as redirects from the forum we are migrating from.
And we have to redirect from `http://example.com/forums/general-discussion` into `http://example.com/c/uncategorized`
Currently I’m on local development install `http://localhost:3000/`.
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### Author:  [@mrded](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mrded)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-create-a-permalink-with-forums-address/52100/4 "2016-10-27T15:20:12Z")
The issue has been solved, but still, can you explain why a permalink shouldn’t accept the “/” character?
Am I using it not on purpose? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-create-a-permalink-with-forums-address/52100/5 "2016-10-27T15:21:17Z")
Actually a permalink with `a/b/c` works, and one with `c/xyz` also works. Gotta do some digging on this later.
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### Author:  [@mrded](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mrded)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-create-a-permalink-with-forums-address/52100/6 "2016-10-27T15:23:16Z")
Do not worry about it, it’s solved already [Remove useless routing for ForumsController by mrded · Pull Request #4517 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4517)
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-able-to-create-a-permalink-with-forums-address/52100/7 "2016-10-27T15:25:33Z")