# Permalinks within Discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 3, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589 "2019-01-03T15:35:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@hgpot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hgpot)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589/1 "2019-01-03T15:35:38Z")
I would like to redirect topic 3405 to topic 5618. So anyone linking to 3405 gets sent to topic 5618, instead.
I read up on Permalinks here:
> [@Custom permalink for topics?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/45128):
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> Hi, I want to edit permalinks of topics created by me. Is there any way to do it in discourse? Sometimes there is a need of setting up a different title for the topic and different permalink (short). I think the permalink of the topic should be customizable from admin panel.
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/59727](https://meta.discourse.org/t/59727)
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/88918](https://meta.discourse.org/t/88918)
I tried setting it up a few ways:
But none of these seem to make topic 3405 redirect to topic 5618.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589/2 "2019-01-03T17:39:13Z")
I don’t believe it’s possible to redirect a topic to another topic with a permalink. You’d end up with a topic that exists but is inaccessible (because visiting it redirects you).
What you could do instead is close the original topic and make the last reply a link to the new one. Or if you want to hide the original topic entirely you could archive it.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589/3 "2019-01-04T01:37:53Z")
We keep seeing users try to abuse permalinks in this manner, therefore our UI is broken. How can we make it more clear what this feature is for in the UI @techAPJ? Can we generate an error when someone tries to generate an internal permalink?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589/5 "2019-01-04T02:44:26Z")
It may sound heavy-handed, but does permalinks need to exist in the UI if you aren’t migrating posts in?
Even if it’s used correctly there are situations where a permalink could be replicated within a post and won’t work, right?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589/6 "2019-01-04T02:51:50Z")
Wait a second this should technically work if you delete topic 3405 and access old link as a non-admin.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589/7 "2019-05-07T11:44:50Z")
Improved the UI to include description via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ed70595314f02e89c341287fac2fa56a81d2de05](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ed70595314f02e89c341287fac2fa56a81d2de05)
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2022, 5:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589/9 "2022-09-03T05:41:03Z")