# Redirect old URLs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-urls/20951
**Category:** Marketplace
**Created:** [October 9, 2014, 8:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-urls/20951 "2014-10-09T08:30:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![tudorv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tudorv/32/2568_2.png) [@tudorv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tudorv)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 8:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-urls/20951/1 "2014-10-09T08:30:37Z")

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I’ll pay $25 to someone who is able to help me redirect some old links to new URLs. I’ve described the problem [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/301-redirect-to-my-old-forum-archive/20587). The new Discourse forum is online and working, now all I need is a couple of smart Nginx rules.

Please note I’m not looking for general Nginx conf tricks I can easily find online. I need someone to tell me exactly what I should do in my specific case.

PM me for details if interested. It could only take a few minutes for someone who knows Nginx and Discourse.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-urls/20951/2 "2015-02-01T20:57:23Z")

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This is now built in

> [@Redirect old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs using permalinks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-old-forum-urls-to-new-discourse-urls/20930):
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> 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…

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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: [May 2, 2015, 10:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-old-urls/20951/3 "2015-05-02T10:09:14Z")

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