By rxs0569 on

My problem is simple

My sites hosts users who want to blog. but they all request easier urls to their own blog home page

so for ex
http://mysite.com/drupal/index.php?q=blog/1

should be more like
http://mysite.com/drupal/userloginname

How can i achieve this automatically. Can i make it part of user registration so that they make pick a name (adds additional constraints of checking if the path has laready been taken) or just makeit automatic i.e its they login

please help

I have looked at me and path auto. but can t seem to see how they can help

Raj
PS: I am using a windows box running IIS

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Comments

yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

1. Enable clean URLs. If your webhost won't support that, you can't go further. You may need some tweaking and/or additional software with IIS. This is not a Drupal problem, but rather a shortcoming of Windows. Easy solution: switch to a Unix-based server.

2. Install and properly configure pathauto, which will automatically create aliases for user blog and profile pages based on templates. The default URL template for blog is blog/username, but you can remove the "blog" string if you like.

rxs0569’s picture

rxs0569 commented

If I switch to Apache for Windows and Cleanr URL will it do the trick

raj