# Permalink overhead **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-overhead/51558 **Category:** Development **Created:** [October 14, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-overhead/51558 "2016-10-14T16:57:40Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans) #### Post date: [October 14, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-overhead/51558/2 "2016-10-14T17:13:15Z")
There is an option already. > [@Redirect old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs using permalinks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-old-forum-urls-to-new-discourse-urls/20930): > > 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… Are you looking for something else? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalink-overhead/51558)._