Can you add 301 redirects for old forum content?

[moson]

@datiswous

I wonder if it wouldn’t be better if the url of the old forum would have stayed forum.manjaro.org and the new forum would have become something like newforum.manjaro.org

That would also give a lot of confusion. probably worse than it is now.

@datiswous

Could you give an example of a good 301 redirect that only redirects the search results that should point to the old forum and not the ones for the new forum?

I guess pretty much the only thing you could do (on http server level at least) is to redirect all 404’s (which could probably also be an issue in case it is “a real 404” where there is no content at the old one either) and then I would put a message/alert/notification on the archived one that there is a new forum…

Why are articles disappearing?

This should do the trick (put into server tag): error_page 404 = @archive; location @archive { return 301 $scheme://archived.forum.manjaro.org$request_uri; }

Another option could be to place some custom javascript on the “Oops, does not exist page” here which would check if the corresponding archived.xxx… exists and if so, would redirect to that page then. Not sure how how easy that would be to implement within discourse though.