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| Project: | Drupal core |
| Version: | 7.x-dev |
| Component: | path.module |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (works as designed) |
Issue Summary
If you set a path alias for a node which is a translation, and have your locale settings to LANGUAGE_NEGOTIATION_NONE, the alias is never used, and will return a 404 if you try to visit it directly, instead you just get node/nid as if there was no alias set.
This caused me several hours of headache, as documented on #204106: Test for translated path aliases.
Two options:
1. Make drupal_lookup_path() return an alias in that case - there's a patch by desbeers (and updated by me) on that issue which does this.
2. form_alter out the path field on nodes where it's going to be disregarded.
Personally I'd go for #1 - since as far as I can see the current behaviour, whether by design or not, is both completely undocumented, and to me makes no sense whatsoever.
Comments
#1
I'm favorable to #1, but the patch in the other issue is wrong: we should use any alias regardless of the language *only if* language negotiation is set to NONE.
#2
So in otherwords, browsing your site in English or default language, you expect to see aliases that are not for the same language? Nope, that's by design.