# Questions About Migrating From Xenforo
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-migrating-from-xenforo/42966
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [April 22, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-migrating-from-xenforo/42966 "2016-04-22T03:49:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@RoldanLT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RoldanLT)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-migrating-from-xenforo/42966/21 "2016-11-20T22:41:40Z")
I’m planing to do migration from XenForo after XF 2.0 gets released and if I don’t like it’s changes.
Does discourse also support redirecting all Xenforo links to the new one?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-migrating-from-xenforo/42966/22 "2016-11-21T03:20:13Z")
Glancing quickly from my phone, it doesn’t appear that the Xenforo importer does redirects. That would require a bit of code be added.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-migrating-from-xenforo/42966/23 "2016-11-21T13:51:11Z")
Continued here:
> [@Migrate a XenForo forum to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-xenforo-to-discourse/45232):
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> Hey guys so after trying for a week or so I decided to import the database on docker app which I hoped it will succeed without any issues. TBH I got some issues at first but it turned to be all easy to solve. Now I would recommend doing this only once before you deploy your production site, after importing everything take a Discourse backup, wipe everything out and install new Discourse instance then restore the imported db. Ok let’s begin: First lets backup your old database from your old …
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