Redirecting vbulletin urls to discourse

[gerhard (Gerhard Schlager)]

Redirect old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs using permalinks

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, 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 ar…

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