The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.If the canonical field is empty the meta tag is still generated as the URL of the node. Is this by design?
Correct me if I am wrong, but is it not the case that canonical URLs are supposed to send a search engine crawler elsewhere - what does noting the current page as the canonical adress do?
I am very new to websites compared to most people here, so this may be a non-issue. If it is, I apologize.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #5 | nodewords-n1107610-5.patch | 421 bytes | damienmckenna |
| #4 | nodewords-n1107610.patch | 969 bytes | damienmckenna |
Comments
Comment #1
damienmckennaSounds like it needs to be verified & fixed for the next release.
Comment #2
dave reidI cannot duplicate this with the current code (6.x-1.x).
Comment #3
kalis1I confirm the bug, which happens when you've previously set a canonical url, and then erase it. In this configuration, the canonical meta displayed in the source code is equal to the node's path...
Comment #4
damienmckennaI believe this is working in the current 6.x-1.x codebase because of the following:
This will not pass an empty string to the url() function, thus if no path string is available it will not try to display anything.
All the same, here's a tiny tweak.
Comment #5
damienmckennaThe tweak rerolled.
Comment #6
3dloco commentedThanks Damien, patch in #5 works for me.
Comment #7
damienmckenna@3dloco: Thanks for the review. This fix has been committed.