Pathauto

On this week's episode we talk a little philosophical about assuring that your site architecture is reflected in your content URLs (and why this is good for your site visitors). Then, we dig in and make it happen automatically using the Pathauto module in Drupal.

Good basic tutorial. I like the new backdrop, you almost need that "the more you know" rainbow star intro now.
posted by:
sirkyle
I just had a thought and know you're looking for suggestions. A series on profiles might be cool. I think I saw you were looking into profile stuff in D6. Maybe a basics of profiles, having user pictures in profiles, more advanced profiles like Content Profile provides, etc. That's a bit of an awkward area to figure out without a lot of study, imho.
posted by:
Josiah Ritchie
Hey Bob, I think your tutorials are awesome! I love the content and the frequency of new ones. I've been dabbling with Drupal for a year now and your lessons make my brain go boom with possibilities. Big Thanks. Yogesh
posted by:
yogesh
Yes - profiles would be very interesting and helpful. Cheers Bob, and thanks again.
posted by:
pete
What happens when PathAuto creates a duplicate path alias? For instance, say I have PathAuto set to 'news/[title-raw]' BUT I have two news nodes with the same title??????????
posted by:
arlinsandbulte
If there is a duplicate, it will create the same name, but append something like -0 (dash 0, or more numbers I believe if there are more than one duplicate) to the end of the path. If you observe this happens when you save a node, you can go back and subtly adjust the title of the page, and when you save you will get a new path without the -0.
posted by:
Keyz
We friendly and nicely done tutorial. My congratualtions!! I love to see more tutorials from you about drupal. Thanks i.e USER PROFILE PHOTO GALLERY ( would be cool to watch)
posted by:
Anonymous
Hi Bob, Thanks for the great podcast. I have a question regarding previously added nodes i.e. before I added the PathAuto module. I have about 300 nodes which do not have URL aliases. Is there a way to force PathAuto to redo all the previously added nodes?
posted by:
JJ
yes, there is. go to: admin/build/path/pathauto | Automated alias settings | Node path settings and check Bulk generate aliases for nodes that are not aliased then Save configuration. For 300 nodes you need to run this for 6 times, because in General settings is default value for bulk generation only 50. You can change this but it depends the speed of your server.
posted by:
mufty
Man, I had watched this video cast a while ago, but when I tried doing something with pathauto, I could not remember; good thing I can always go back a watch previous video casts Thanks Bob! I would also like to suggest a video cast on how to theme CAPTCHA
posted by:
Miguel
Been watching a good majority of your videos. Very interesting stuff, easy to grasp and extremely helpful. Thanks Bob!
posted by:
Josh