Old topics redirect

[anon271910]

Currently when you rename a topic, it changes the url and deletes the old url. I think that a nice plugin/feature would be if the old url redirected to the new one.

Thanks
~EpicDinosaurz

[Mega]

Let's say you have a topic
http://example.com/topic/23/my-theme

you renamed it to something like
http://example.com/topic/23/my-super-mega-theme

anyway it's still can be reached by following urls
http://example.com/topic/23
and
http://example.com/topic/23/
theoretically you can make a rewrite rule with regex in your server definition (if you're using nginx as reverse-proxy) for redirect all urls like /* by default min topic name length = 3 */
http://example.com/topic/ATLEAST_ONE_DIGIT/ATLEAST_THREE_NONESLASH_CHAR
to
http://example.com/topic/FIRST_MATCH/

but there is a major caveat
urls like
http://example.com/topic/23/my-super-mega-theme/17
will not work

BUT actually you still may reach this address
http://example.com/topic/23/my-super-mega-theme/17
by using hash part of url
http://example.com/topic/23/#17

so, you able to make a rewrite rule that contains this case too
it will looks like
http://example.com/topic/ATLEAST_ONE_DIGIT/ATLEAST_THREE_NONESLASH_CHAR/ATLEAST_ONE_DIGIT
to
http://example.com/topic/FIRST_MATCH/#THIRD_MATCH

It all should work but I didn't tested it.

[a_5mith]

@Epic_Dinosaurz said:

Currently when you rename a topic, it changes the url and deletes the old url. I think that a nice plugin/feature would be if the old url redirected to the new one.

Thanks
~EpicDinosaurz

It used to. But it meant that something else didn't work. So was removed. Baris made a post about it in a similar topic a few months ago.