Hello Peter,

How does the old url looks like versus the new url? If the permalinks are the same for the post, you could just do a simple 301 redirect in your htaccess

Hi Mark, thank you.

An example of an old url after the domain name is

/forum/34-spain-touring/5048-spinners-brief-encounter-with-the-spanish-civil-war-part-3

Whereas the new url is

/forums/72-16-travel/8-18-continental-touring/3-34-spain-touring/7986-spinners-brief-encounter-with-the-spanish-civil-war-part-3

I've been looking at the settings a lot more since my original post and can see that there are various 'search engine' settings so am wondering whether I should have them set differently before migrating?

Hello Peter,

Hm, this is tricky because the id's are actually not matching and there isn't a simple way of redirecting them This would be my best suggestion,

1. Your new forums, try to use a different alias. Perhaps just /forum/ instead of /forums/

2. Any requests made to /forums/xxxx , do a 301 redirect to /forum/

This way, you wouldn't get much on 404 pages.

OK thanks again. I have managed to lose the 's' on 'forums' so the new alias is 'forum'

But not sure that'll help with your suggestion in mind....

When I carry this process of migration on my 'live' site, is it possible to set it up so this doesn't happen?

Ah sorry i must have read it wrongly. The previous structure is correct already. Now, you just need to do a 310 redirect from /forum/*** to /forums/

In short, this is how it should be done,

1. Use /forums/ for your new forum with easydiscuss
2. Redirect all /forum/*** to /forums/