Redirecting vbulletin urls to discourse

[gerhard (Gerhard Schlager)]

Redirecting old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs

If you’ve moved from other forum software to Discourse using one of our 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 are a few options for defining where the url should redirect to. Set o…

With a little bit if Ruby code and some regex magic you could even redirect to the imported topics, posts and users…