# Setup Discourse, Transfer from old Xoops, Setup URL Redirection
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-discourse-transfer-from-old-xoops-setup-url-redirection/370957
**Category:** Marketplace
**Created:** [June 19, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-discourse-transfer-from-old-xoops-setup-url-redirection/370957 "2025-06-19T23:23:42Z")
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### Author:  [@sermonindex](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sermonindex)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-discourse-transfer-from-old-xoops-setup-url-redirection/370957/1 "2025-06-19T23:23:42Z")
Looking to migrate an old forum from the website [SermonIndex](https://www.sermonindex.net) which over has over 100,000 users and 400,000 posts: [https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/](https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/)
Looking to see it moved over to a subdomain: forums.sermonindex with discourse.
Also want to try and match as much as possible the header, footer and css font etc of a new designed site we are releasing.
Looking to see this done in the next 1-4 weeks. Offering $300-350 USD for this being done.
Thanks ahead of time, looking forward to working with you potentially.
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### Author:  [@sermonindex](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sermonindex)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-discourse-transfer-from-old-xoops-setup-url-redirection/370957/2 "2025-06-19T23:24:53Z")
attaching here the beta new site header and footer in React JS that we can share some of the code to try and replicate the width and header / footer.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-discourse-transfer-from-old-xoops-setup-url-redirection/370957/3 "2025-06-19T23:47:50Z")
There is no existing script to migrate Xoops, so it’s a bit of work to do that.
You can see [Redirecting…](https://www.literatecomputing.com/discourse-migration/) but the migration part alone would start at $1500.
The customization, depending on how closely you want it to match could fit your budget, but if you’ve got fancy javascript that you need integrated into discourse, it could be a quite a bit of work.
Others may have better offers.
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### Author:  [@sermonindex](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sermonindex)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-discourse-transfer-from-old-xoops-setup-url-redirection/370957/4 "2025-06-19T23:58:10Z")
We are just looking for the header and footer to essentially be customized and the width also trying to match our site so it would feel abit seamless.
Yes it would be custom work, if there was a script to just run, we would add it to our list to easily get done. Just wanted to try and get someone who knows discourse more as it would be an easier task for them.
That is well outside our budget we run on a shoe-string budget and the migrated site was mostly done by volunteer work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-discourse-transfer-from-old-xoops-setup-url-redirection/370957/5 "2025-07-19T23:58:59Z")
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