### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [7 september 2020 om 07:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/1 "2020-09-07T07:51:56Z")
I am trying to migrate from WordPress based forum to Discourse .
My old url is like this
`https://example.com/question/questioncontent`
And in discourse I see topics are created with uri
`https://example.com/t/questioncontent`
So I copied entire content from my old forum to new forum
Im not that techy so I don’t wanted to take risk I have about 18 posts so I didn’t went with any scripts . I copied all the content manually.
Now my question is how can I redirect
My old forum links which are already indexed in search engines.
I tried permalink feature to redirect , but still I am not able to redirect
Did I missed something? Anywhere please guide me with the correct procedure
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [7 september 2020 om 14:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/2 "2020-09-07T14:45:06Z")
See admin → customize → permalinks. You can create a redirect from the 18 old URLs to their new topics.
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### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [7 september 2020 om 17:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/3 "2020-09-07T17:07:45Z")
I tried unfortunately they are not redirected
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### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 12:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/4 "2020-09-10T12:10:40Z")
Any help? This is not working for me
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### Author:  [@fzngagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fzngagan)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 12:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/5 "2020-09-10T12:32:48Z")
I have written a plugin to do so.
> **[GitHub - paviliondev/discourse-articles](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-articles)**
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Change the above to:
` get '/question/:slug', to: redirect('/t/%{slug}')`
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### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 12:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/6 "2020-09-10T12:36:25Z")
Thanks will try and let u know
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 14:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/7 "2020-09-10T14:54:00Z")
I cannot imagine why not, but it’s impossible to tell without more information about what you did. I cannot imagine why you’d need a plug-in, though. For 18 you can just create them by hand, though you could possibly use a permalink normalization to do them all at once.
Edit: permalink works only for incoming links, not links within discourse. What is usually done is to rewrite those links in the posts.
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### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 15:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/8 "2020-09-10T15:45:09Z")
I was redirecting my old forum urls to discourse one. Dont know why its not working for me.
i wanted to confirm
suppose my old url is 1. [forum.example.com/must-read-rules](http://forum.example.com/must-read-rules)
and discourse one is 2. [forum.example.com/t/must-read-rules/47](http://forum.example.com/t/must-read-rules/47)
i have to enter this 1. in New field and 2 in destination field am i right?
Sry for dumb question!
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 15:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/9 "2020-09-10T15:55:07Z")
You’d enter `must-read-rules` in the URL field , leave the “topic ID” selected, and put 47 in the topic ID field. Like this:
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### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 12:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/10 "2020-09-10T12:27:50Z")
The redirect option under customize option is not working for me.
How can I make it work?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 13:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/11 "2020-09-10T13:24:19Z")
Are you trying to use it to redirect inbound links _to_ discourse content, or to redirect links within discourse (i.e between pages).
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 14:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/12 "2020-09-10T14:57:11Z")
Right! Permalink works only for incoming URLs. I bet this is the problem.
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### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 15:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/13 "2020-09-10T15:40:40Z")
@pfaffman @Stephen Im migrating from wordpress to discourse. I m redirecting my old urls to discourse generated urls.
ex: [forum.example.com/question/hey](http://forum.example.com/question/hey) to [forum.example.com/t/hey](http://forum.example.com/t/hey)
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 15:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/14 "2020-09-10T15:43:59Z")
Inbound links will be redirected by the permalinks feature. Internal links **between** posts will need to be corrected to reflect their new destination, permalink redirection won’t work there.
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### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 15:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/15 "2020-09-10T15:47:11Z")
What are the possible ways to make it work?
the first url was my previous wordpress forum one and second url is my discourse one
How can i redirect successfully.
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### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 16:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/16 "2020-09-10T16:44:28Z")
Can u please tell me how can i edit the code any guide? i installed the plugin but i didnt found specific area which u are referring to edit the slug?
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### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 16:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/17 "2020-09-10T16:58:28Z")
Tried unfortunately not working 😔
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### Author:  [@fzngagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fzngagan)
#### Post date: [10 september 2020 om 17:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/18 "2020-09-10T17:48:44Z")
You’ll have to fork the plugin.
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### Author:  [@Vamshi\_Krishna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vamshi_Krishna)
#### Post date: [11 september 2020 om 01:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-the-old-forum-urls-to-the-discourse/163228/19 "2020-09-11T01:03:35Z")
Can I add multiple urls there?
Or only structure of url?