I'm having the same difficulty, i need to be able to override url aliases in drupal 5.1,
for example if i set the views url to
taxonomy/term/

and argument to
term ID

the view works normally, how ever if i try to then set my url in views to the alias of that term eg.
meal/breakfast/

with same argument

it wont use the view and reverts to the system default. Which to me makes it seem like the url-alias has a higher priority than the view, ive checked weighting on paths and taxonomy modules etc.. in the system table in mysql , but that is not the the issue.

The only reason i need to do this is because i want to theme my taxonomy/term views differently for certain vocabularies, ie. have different header, footer information and slight style changes in css, which i can not achieve by just using the default taxonomy/term i need to alias the terms and apply "views" to the aliases. If there is a workaround for my problem id be greatly appreciative as to a shove in the right direction.

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Pogo’s picture

Pogo commented

I have the same problem, although I think it's not a problem with url alias. I think that Views need some special selector on which pages the view should be applied/shown. Maybe something blocks have in their configuration.

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Views cannot override aliases and gets no control over aliasing;

URL aliases cannot have arguments.

If your view is foo/bar and you alias it to baz, and you then go to baz/blah you won't get foo/bar/baz.

This is unfortunate; there is also not a single thing I can do about this. That is simply how the aliasing system works. You'll have to find another solution to do what you want.

tanoshimi’s picture

tanoshimi commented

Have you tried the taxonomy_redirect module? This allows you to override the taxonomy/term to point to a different url for each vocabulary.