Adding custom story URLs into Pathauto seems to conflict with clean URLs
Sat, 21/03/2009 - 01:41
I have used the Pathauto capability to define a custom URL for stories:
story/0[nid]-[title-raw]
but this seems to be ignored when I turn on clean URLs.
I need the 0[nid] so my site will have a chance of being indexed by Google News -- so how can I use both, or do I have to turn off clean URLs?
cheers
Paul
Sat, 21/03/2009 - 15:50
#2
Bulk recreate
Yes, you are right -- I found that the Pathauto was only taking effect when creating or modifying stories.
It also seems to affect some image URLs embedded in stories, but I need to look at that more.
Regarding changing existing ones -- I am a little nervous about a bulk delete... what triggers the recreation?
cheers
Paul
Sat, 21/03/2009 - 16:06
#3
Path aliases are normally
Path aliases are normally created upon node saving (ie. creation and editing). If you edit a node, and expand the fieldset URL path settings, you can influence this.
Alternatively, you can ask pathauto to generate aliases en-masse on the pathauto settings page itself (below where you define the patterns).
Hi,
As far as I can tell, it should have just worked. However, when you redefine the pathauto pattern for stories, it only affects new stories, not existing ones. Is that possibly what's happening here?
If you want to change existing ones, you probably want to delete them first at .../admin/build/path/delete_bulk (but of course, be careful when doing this).