Creating a PathAuto alias for homepage?

Posted by CtrlAltDelete on December 11, 2012 at 4:17pm

Is it possible to create an alias for the homepage using PathAuto?

I have a handful of deleted nodes and would like to direct requests from offsite links for those to the homepage. I tried using the old alias (e.g., /profile/company1) and pointing it to < front > instead of the previous location like /node/512. This just returns the 404 page. I know about the issues pointing to Views pages...is this a similar limitation?

This seems like it should be simple, but it's not working so I must be missing something obvious. Any input is appreciated.

Comments

What about trying '/' instead

Posted by nevets on December 11, 2012 at 4:56pm

What about trying '/' instead of ''?

The forward slash immediately

Posted by CtrlAltDelete on December 11, 2012 at 5:22pm

The forward slash immediately following the domain is already hardcoded for both the existing system path and path alias fields

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Posted by cfox612 on December 11, 2012 at 6:14pm

Why not redirect the 404 page to the homepage?

Found the fix

Posted by CtrlAltDelete on December 11, 2012 at 10:01pm

OK, just installed the Redirect module (http://drupal.org/project/redirect) and discovered it will do exactly this! I apologize for posting *before* trying this but the description for Redirect didn't sound like it would work...should have tried it first anyways!