Settings/Legal alternative URLs are being ignored after update

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

@Paul_King

Will need to get myself sufficiently up to speed with Rails to tackle that suggestion.

How did you get on, Paul? I remember this being an issue for you ages ago.

I’ve just had to do this myself after accidentally using delete_all the FAQ/Guidelines topic and not discovering it for a while. This post was super helpful:

How to regenerate FAQ and TOS pages?

Interesting. How did you manage to delete those topics? You shouldn’t be allowed to delete them in the UI. First, let’s see if the topics are really gone. ./launcher enter app rails c Topic.with_deleted.exists?(SiteSetting.guidelines_topic_id) Topic.with_deleted.exists?(SiteSetting.tos_topic_id) If the topics are really gone, create two new topics in the Staff category and assign the topic ids in the rails console to the site settings. SiteSetting.guidelines_topic_id = 4711 # replace with t…

Happy to guide you through it if you need a hand.