Problem with URL aliases
Fri, 15/05/2009 - 22:36
Hi beng,
Adding a new story with the title of a previous story seems to be causing some problems. The behavior of pathauto seems to be to assign the new article the base alias (e.g. "my-series") and then append numbers to the aliases of the previous articles (e.g., "my-series-2") with the same title.
This is fine, but it causes a problem with search indexing. If I search for a word that appears in "my-series-2" (the older story) in the above example, search correctly displays the node title and excerpt text but links to "my-series" instead of the new, changed alias "my-series-2".
Basically, search indexing is not taking account of the updated alias. Any ideas what to do about this?
Fri, 15/05/2009 - 23:02
#2
Maybe change your pathauto pattern to insert a node id?
Hi,
Maybe change your pathauto pattern to insert a node id? That would guarantee aliases will be unique.
ie. on .../admin/build/path/pathauto, change Pattern for all Story paths: to something like story/[nid]/[title-raw] ?
Fri, 15/05/2009 - 23:10
#3
Yeah I might end up doing
Yeah I might end up doing that, but this is just getting curiouser and curiouser.
I can't figure out why pathauto insists that these two stories have the same alias!
I've removed auto-aliasing from both stories and re-enabled it one at a time... same result!
On further investigation, it looks like the problem is actually with pathauto failing to check for duplicate aliases.
I have two articles with the same title, and pathauto is assigning the same alias. Even after editing each story, unchecking auto alias, and re-checking auto-alias, it still wants to give them the same alias.
Hmmmmm...