# Redirect perspective URL from old project to new project, is it possible?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/redirect-perspective-url-from-old-project-to-new-project-is-it-possible/89884>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81\
**Created:** [May 3, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/redirect-perspective-url-from-old-project-to-new-project-is-it-possible/89884 "2024-05-03T11:13:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Craig\_Rathbone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Craig\_Rathbone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Craig_Rathbone)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/redirect-perspective-url-from-old-project-to-new-project-is-it-possible/89884/1 "2024-05-03T11:13:28Z")

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Hi,  
Due to some bad front end planning I have found that I have named my project badly and it does not reflect the scope of it now.....however,.... It's in use by many people in the company with lots of people bookmarking their favorite pages etc already......

Is it possible to do a redirect like so:

http://server\_ip/data/perspective/client/ **project1** /SiteName/BuildingName/Overview  
to  
http://server\_ip/data/perspective/client/ **project2** /SiteName/BuildingName/Overview

For everything.

With all url elements preserved other than the project name as I'm using parameters and smart displays a lot....

I'd then migrate over to the proper name, then set up project1 to just redirect.

Yes, it would be simpler to just change it and tell everyone, but you know: people.

Thoughts?

(Basically the project is named after one site, but we have expanded to several in country and need to change the project to the country name and it's already used by every man and their dog and some ppl don't cope with change)

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/redirect-perspective-url-from-old-project-to-new-project-is-it-possible/89884/2 "2024-05-03T11:44:35Z")

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Just explain the boss that it is going to be cheaper to just fix bookmarks once, than to run a redirect server for ever

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/redirect-perspective-url-from-old-project-to-new-project-is-it-possible/89884/3 "2024-05-03T14:38:32Z")

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Eh. It would be pretty easy to set up a reverse proxy in front of Ignition to handle this.

You could theoretically replace the first project with a catch-all view and call system.perspective.navigate, but then you'll notice two loading screens.

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**Author:** ![Craig\_Rathbone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Craig\_Rathbone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Craig_Rathbone)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/redirect-perspective-url-from-old-project-to-new-project-is-it-possible/89884/4 "2024-05-04T01:56:58Z")

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thanks for the replies.

> You could theoretically replace the first project with a catch-all view and call system.perspective.navigate, but then you'll notice two loading screens.

Yeah, just had a play with that, probably best I don't do that.

Might change it to a catch all with a message explaining the new URL so ppl dont ring me when they get 404'd 🙂