By moramata on

Using Drupal 5.2 and Path Auto 5.x release

I asked this question before but did not get any repsonse.
I have severe problem using path auto for auto url generation when the title contains characters line $, &, etc.

For example my title is

Is Path & Auto Useful?

It will generate a url

path-%2526amp%3B-auto-useful%3F

First, this is not very user friendly url
And This url is not accessable using any browser.

How do I tell path auto not generate garbage url (i.e. ignore certain character like $, &, ?, etc.)?
I think it was doing so in 4.7 version but it does not do it now.

Please advise

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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vm commented

First thing first, you should update to Drupal 5.3 you are running an insecure version

on to your questions:

Path Auto 5.x release

you need to be more specific in the version you are using. 5.x-dev ? 5.x-2.x-dev ? 5.x-1.2 ? please be more concise.

yes pathauto is very useful for automatically generating url aliases for paths.

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Rowanw commented

I noticed this problem with the development snapshot of Pathauto, the stable versions shouldn't suffer this problem. Also check the issue queue.

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moramata commented

Hi:
I think I am going blind or I don't know how this site works. May be I am a complete idiot.

I go to path auto project page at

http://drupal.org/project/pathauto

Under the releases, I have two options

Releases
Official releases Date Size Links
5.x-1.2 2007-Jun-04 40.08 KB Download · Release notes

Development snapshots Date Size Links
4.7.x-1.x-dev 2007-Oct-25 22.19 KB Download · Release notes

Becuase I am using Drupal 5 version. I downloaded
5.x-1.2 2007-Jun-04 40.08

Is there another release version of path auto for Drupal 5 that I am not aware of? And which version I should be using?

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Rowanw commented

Pathauto version 5.x-1.2 works fine for me, double check which version you have installed (Site building > Modules) and if 5.x-1.2 is the one screwing up post a new issue in the issue queue. Scan the existing issues before you post a new one though, someone may have already reported the same problem.

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archard commented

Can you just enter those characters in the "strings to remove" section? Or will it not accept symbols?