Hi!

I found a (for me) critical issue with pathauto. To say this first: It occurred first time with version 1.2, but since it didn't become better after upgrading to 2.x, I'll report it for this version.

Since I installed pathauto the following phenomenon occurs everytime I save an existing node successfuly after editing it. When I (or everyone else, not related to roles) tries to view this node, he only gets a white page. NOTHING in, not even a header, menue or error message. Also nothing in my logs. It is possible to edit it again, but I found no way to display it.

No matter if I come ofer a menue link or directly from content administration page.

Please see http://www.einfach-trainieren.de/equipment-buch and the click on submenue-point "Kraftsport".

Hope someone had this before and I just oversaw the thread.

Thank you for your help!

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mperabo commented

Sorry, pasted the wrong link. This is the correct one:

http://www.einfach-trainieren.de/equipment

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greggles
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My understanding of your problem is that the path you expect to work (/equipment) instead returns a 404. I clicked on the equipment link in the left menu and it appears to work fine.

The same content is available at
http://www.einfach-trainieren.de/node/490 or http://www.einfach-trainieren.de/equipment/

So, it looks like it's working now, but not for the sub-pages in that book, right? Can you explain the problem in more detail or give an update?

Thanks.

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mperabo commented

Thank you for your answer. Seems like there is a misunderstanding. The Page I pasted the link to works like it should. But one of it's underpages shows the problem for an example. Open the link and than click on subpage "Krafttraining" in the left Menue called " :::Community:::". It will show you an white page instead of a node. The link is correct, the alias exists, but no output at all. Not even html-code.

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To "solve" this problem, please
1) make a backup of the url_alias database table
2) Delete the contents of the url_alias table - either directly or via http://www.einfach-trainieren.de/admin/build/path/delete_bulk
3) Visit those pages again via the node/NODE_ID path and see if they work

I just want to confirm that this is a path problem and not related to anything else.

To restore the aliases, reload the backup of the url_alias table or use the bulk update. Using bulk update may also fix the problem so I suggest you try that first.

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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
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mperabo commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

Thanks again for your help. With your input, I finaly tracked down where it came from. It is NOT related to the pathauto module, it just appeared unfortunately at the same time I installed it!

When I followed your instructions, it came to my mind that it only happened with book pages... Had a closer look at this and found wrong code in the book.tpl.php that one of my programmers implemented. It was related to a cck_video field that was not in the existing nodes. When someone changed the content and saved, this field was brought in and wrong themed.

I'm realy sorry that I had you going into this and waste your time, but you brought me back to the right 'path'... ;) and that saved my head from my pissed boss. :) Thank you very much!

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Glad to hear it's solved and of course glad to hear that your boss is also happy ;)