# Redirect Old Forum URLs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-forum-urls/47211
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2016年七月13日 11:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-forum-urls/47211 "2016-07-13T11:20:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Vikas\_Dangi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vikas_dangi/32/131628_2.png) [@Vikas\_Dangi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vikas_Dangi)
#### Post date: [2016年七月13日 11:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-forum-urls/47211/1 "2016-07-13T11:20:12Z")

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Before vanilla forum was installed on my forum. Now I have transfered to discourse, so how can I redirect old topic urls to new discourse topic URLs.

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### Author: ![Steven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/steven/32/187890_2.png) [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)
#### Post date: [2016年七月13日 11:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-forum-urls/47211/2 "2016-07-13T11:57:01Z")

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In Admin \> Customize, you have an option called Permalinks where you can change each url one by one.

For vanilla scripts, I don’t know if there is a better method though

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年七月13日 21:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-forum-urls/47211/3 "2016-07-13T21:32:37Z")

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We have a recipe for this @techapj will update with a #howto later.

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2016年七月16日 18:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-forum-urls/47211/4 "2016-07-16T18:24:54Z")

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We now have howto for this:

> [@Redirect vBulletin URLs to Discourse URLs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-vbulletin-urls-to-discourse-urls/47394):
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> Migrating from vBulletin to Discourse and want to redirect old vBulletin URLs to new Discourse URLs? Read on! bell If the base URL of your old forum and new forum is same, you should follow this howto instead: [Redirect old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs using permalinks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-old-forum-urls-to-new-discourse-urls/20930) In this howto we’ll assume: vBulletin base URL: www.example.com/forum Discourse base URL: forum.example.com Nginx server for www.example.com Let’s begin! Generate Nginx map file To set up categories and …

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2019年二月12日 23:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-forum-urls/47211/5 "2019-02-12T23:44:19Z")

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2019年三月14日 23:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-forum-urls/47211/6 "2019-03-14T23:44:32Z")

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