The path 'node/x' is either invalid or you do not have access to it.

By cristi1910 on 4 Mar 2008 at 07:25 UTC

I have installed Drupal 6.1 and DHTML Menu version 6.x.

I made a new menu and I have tried to add new items but I received the following error: "The path 'node/x' is either invalid or you do not have access to it." (x is a number).
I must tell you that I was able to create the new menu and the first 2 items in it. For the menu, I wrote to the Path: node/1, for first item: node/2 and for second item: node/3. After that, I tried to add item 3 (with path: node/4) and I got that error.
If I put any other number instead of 4 I get the same error message.

Please let me know where my mistake. Please be explicit because these are my first steps in Drupal.
Thank you for your support!

Comments

Any solution for this

jbigelow commented 30 March 2008 at 21:32

Were you able to figure out the problem with this, I am having the same issue. Thanks.

A solution

vmira27 commented 31 March 2008 at 04:58

Hi,

I solved this problem, but I am nos shore about the good way because I have tried a lot of combinations.
First, go to administer -> site building -> modules and there enable the path module. Don't forghet to save configuration.
Now, go to create content -> page (story). On the page/story creation page you have a link "URL path settings". Click on it and you will be able to type the path to this new page (e.g. colors/blue). Don't forghet this link because you must remember when you will want to make a menu.

I hope that this will solve your problem.

I have 2 question for you:
You know how to instal a new language (translation)?
How to put on another page the login field?

Best regards,
cristi1910

Thanks for the help, it

jbigelow commented 3 April 2008 at 06:44

Thanks for the help, it worked. Unfortunately I can't answer your other questions, I'm just starting to learn Drupal too.

..or

sfar77 commented 21 October 2008 at 17:46

..or create block first:
Pages:
node/1
Sorry, ignore my reply

Yes it works

hamidjs commented 7 July 2017 at 10:28

That worked for me too. Thnx

You have to add full path or use http:// as a placeholder

irinaz commented 10 December 2008 at 05:04

You have to add full path beginning with http:// if you want to add a link that is not inside Drupal system. If you need a placeholder, you can enter http://. Not sure about usefulness of this new link-checking feature.

Irina Zaks,
irina.zaks@iringweb.com

Wow...

mdlueck commented 15 October 2010 at 01:56

I was getting pretty frustrated trying to get Drupal 6.x to accept a menu entry for a "competing PHP product" on the same domain name. Full URL did the trick. I do not recall D5 being so persnickety, Thanks Irina!

Make content before menus. Just do it that way, sorry.

dman commented 3 April 2008 at 08:17

I'm not sure, but it sounds like a newbie mistake (that bit me the first time also)
DO NOT CREATE MENU ITEMS before the content!

Intuitively, it looks easier to start with a site map and fill in the content later. That's actually the worst thing to do. I'm consistently telling my clients/content managers to stop doing it. It hurts.

Make content.
Then place it in the sitemap.
Anything else hurts!

There are work-arounds, but they require DB-fu. I built one specially to handle wiki-style "This page does not exist yet - would you like to create it?" links. But it's a bad path.

Forego empty placeholders.

See node_import, with my path-menu patch for rapid CSV-based sitemap prototyping.

... If that's not your problem and you are describing some other symptom. sorry, ignore me.

.dan.
How to troubleshoot Drupal | http://www.coders.co.nz/

_{.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards}

Hi, I've got a problem to

cboerner commented 11 April 2008 at 11:08

Hi,

I've got a problem to link to the same page twice. For example I try to make an link entry in the normal menu and in a special menu for the same node.

I get the same error message like cristi1910.

Best regards,
Chris

It does not "hurt"

As If commented 13 May 2008 at 10:41

It does not "hurt" and this is either a bug or an oversight, IMHO. Prior to v6 you could create content and menus in any order you wished, and that provided maximum flexibility. People (especially clients) change their minds. Sometimes multiple times. The old system accommodated that. Unfortunately it seems the new system is more rigid in this regard.

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I really agree with you. I

palantir commented 29 September 2008 at 15:16

I really agree with you. I find that this is a major drawback for flexibility, with respect to previous versions of Drupal. However, this seems to me a deliberate choice: I'd be quite curious to see why it was made?
Are there workarounds? I'd really preferred to make the menu first, and THEN make (or let someone else make) the referred, non-existing nodes, just like wikipedia...

There's a big hoopla

mpaler commented 24 October 2008 at 05:02

going on about this over in the core issue cue.

http://drupal.org/node/308263

Still haven't figured out why they made the system more rigid however...

Mike

Civicsolar
http://www.civicsolar.com

hasnt anybody hacked the

plato1123 commented 25 March 2009 at 19:53

hasnt anybody hacked the validation lines out yet?

search engine friendly url

dentalloupes commented 15 June 2008 at 02:07

http://dentalloupes.cn http://dentalloupe.cn

how to let the system create the url automatically?

You are posting in the wrong

dman commented 15 June 2008 at 07:31

You are posting in the wrong thread, but you want pathauto.module

.dan.
How to troubleshoot Drupal | http://www.coders.co.nz/

_{.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards}

Funny, I just ran into the

kkobashi commented 24 October 2008 at 06:34

Funny, I just ran into the same thing - no fun at all.

You have to type in your content (story, page, whatever). Then, go create the menu item. And then go back to the content and rejig the menu link title, the parent item and the weight. It looks like sometimes the menu item data gets messed up. Yeah I hear ya, its a pain in the behind navigating back and forth between panels.

A suggestion to Drupal core developers:
In the create content screen, why not have a screen pop up that allows the user to create, edit, delete, the menu item? Use AJAX to pull this off. Maybe model this sort of behavior on a website I use - projectplaylist.org. They have a good interface for adding, editing, removing, creating music items. The same sort of idea can apply for menu items. At least this way we can eliminate bouncing back and forth between screens and having to remember things.

Kerry Kobashi

when adding content, you can pop it into the menu at the same ti

tallsimon commented 13 November 2008 at 10:06

there is a menu option in the interface for adding content, there is no need to go elsewhere to do so. just select what words you want to appear in the menu link and what menu to put it in and its weight and hey presto, it appears.

I'm running into this same

fumbling commented 23 December 2008 at 08:25

I'm running into this same issue, but the solutions mentioned so far in this thread do not appear to solve it in my case. The page I'm linking to already exists, and I'm using a relative URL which I'm sure is correct, and I'm logged in as User 1. Any further thoughts?

Yea my thoughts are the

plato1123 commented 25 March 2009 at 19:51

Yea my thoughts are the developers are all drunk
:(
(same problem, trying to link to a relative, static file)

Not Dynamic Content Friendly

vood002 commented 24 March 2009 at 17:44

I have to agree that the best way to add node menu links is through create content rather than adding them manually.

We still need the option, however, to add items here...for instance, I have a view that is passed an argument, and I wanted to hand encode the url+argument into the menu system. Now, I can't do this without including the full path starting with http://, which hurts my pride.

In most cases this wouldn't be a big problem b/c you wouldn't want to manually add arguments to the menu system, but I only have three arguments... this way I only need one View instead of 3 (which would be silly)... this block isn't necessary.

EDIT

I was building this on a development server in which the view wasn't set to accept an argument. When I set the view to accept an argument, I was able to add the relative view path + argument to the menu system.

It looks like someone posted

plato1123 commented 30 March 2009 at 22:25

It looks like someone posted a hack to disable menu validation over at:
http://drupal.org/node/308263
looks like it's just one line change? Seems to work on my end.

Newbie here as well.

sethcardoza commented 12 November 2010 at 17:25

I just ran into this issue trying to create a menu item for /node/#. It was actually really easy to fix, just make the link to node/#, without the preceding slash.

You may have changed the language

flimmeren commented 3 December 2010 at 05:39

This is an old post, but my solution may be relevant to others as well.

I had changed the site language - and discovered that the article-aliases were all still assigned to English - the original language.

Enter "site building" -> "url aliases" and check what language your alias uses.

Hopefully this helps.

thx

the666bbq commented 28 June 2011 at 12:40

glad you shared, had a similar problem and this info was helpful

Same issue in D7, couple years later

Starbuck commented 27 March 2011 at 06:43

I have a brand-new install of D7 where I'm simply trying to change the Menu link title from My Blog to anything else. That results in "The path 'blog/%' is either invalid or you do not have access to it." In fact this occurs just clicking Save from Home » Administration » Structure » Menus » Edit menu link, without making any changes at all.

Same issue here.

bcreeves commented 20 April 2011 at 17:04

I just used the full http://domain.com/blog to the blog until I have more time to look into it.

I run into this when I try to

ben finklea commented 23 February 2013 at 15:54

I run into this when I try to put a / in front of the path like a command line. Instead, don't use the / because it is implied.

In other words, if you want a menu to link to http://yoursite.com/freetrial

DON'T put /freetrial

Put freetrial

I hope that helps.

--Ben Finklea, CEO
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