Hi,
we are using Discourse as KnowledgeBase. As articles evolve we frequently merge some tickets. But obviously links from other articles exists to both articles.
Is there a way to redirect from one article to another?
I mean, yes of course I can simply create the link as content of the old ticket linking to the new one but I am thinking of an autmated redirect (invisble for users)
Is it possible?
/KNEBB
Hi! check out your admin page at yoursite/admin/customize/permalinks
It should do just what you want (we love it)
Did we clarify the UI here @techAPJ so people don’t think this can be used to redirect one Discourse topic to another?
Hmmmmm…
# Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.
Were you not logged in? Or are you not an admin on the site?
We didn’t. Added on my list to do so. 
Ok guys,
got it so far. I am on the page you told me. But looks like I am too dumb to use it.
Again, I have an thread with the following URL:
https://help.domain.com/t/old-thread-title/6418
It has outdated content on it and I want it to link to a newer thread with URL:
https://help.domain.com/t/new-thread-title/11345
So I enterd in the admin’s permalink site on the left the first URl from above and entered the thread-ID of 11345 in the second field.
Trying to access the URL still shows old contend. Tried with a second browser where I am not logged in and did a “Reload” as well. Still old content.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
/KNEBB
Did I get it right now? I can not use this feature to redirect from “inside” Discourse? Well, this explains why it is not working.
In this case back to my original question:
I have a topic which is outdated. I need to replace. I have a new article which replaces the old one. There are several links in the forum to the old article. I want these (internal) links now to point to the new article.
Is this possible?
Note: Yes, I can edit the old thread and just place a link to the new one there… but that’s not really nice…
Thanks again!
/KNEBB
Then you should probably use Replace a string in all posts to change those links.
But then the old article can still be accessed by people who use their local browser bookmarks.
Still, not a really usable solution.
Further ideas?
Honestly, I am surprise this appearing to be so complicated. Am I really the only one needing such thing?
Thanks
/KNEBB
Hi,
ok, you fixed the description, right? So no one should complain any further about permalinks not working on internal links.
But the issue is still unresolved, with this change, right?
So there is no way to replace an existing article by a new one?
Thanks!
/KNEBB
Just edit and replace the text?
我来接管这个帖子，因为我想做同样的事情。而且我相信 knebb 不会生气，因为我（在同一家公司）遵循了他的原始计划。
所以根据我的理解，永久链接应该可以实现从
https://help.domain.com/t/old-thread-title/6418
到
https://help.domain.com/t/new-thread-title/11345
的重定向，但它没有实现。我想将第一个 URL 的浏览器调用转移到第二个 URL。没有内部链接直接访问文章。
就像 knebb 一样，我有点困惑，为什么这个简单的重定向不常被询问，而且显然不可行。
感谢任何解决此任务的提示。DirkS
找到了解决方案。我们需要删除重复项（在我的示例中为 old-thread-title/6418）并使用永久链接。这样管理员就不会注意到重定向，因为管理员也会看到已删除的主题。对于我们的普通用户来说，重定向正在工作。
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