# What happens to internal links upon import from another forum

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happens-to-internal-links-upon-import-from-another-forum/90474>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Created:** [June 22, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happens-to-internal-links-upon-import-from-another-forum/90474 "2018-06-22T10:33:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happens-to-internal-links-upon-import-from-another-forum/90474/3 "2018-06-25T04:45:30Z")

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Most importers do not rewrite internal links.

Permalinks are for incoming links only.

Given that the internal links contain the ID that’s in the import\_id it’s not too hard to write code they will replace them.

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