When we create a node, if the auto-generated url already exists, Pathauto will automatically add a number to the end of the url to prevent identical addresses. For example, say we have a page named "bienvenue". If we create another page that has the same title, the url generated by Pathauto will be "bienvenue-0". However, Pathauto should begin to 2 instead of 0, so we should have "bienvenue-2". It would be more realistic.

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I agree; it would be preferable if the added number would start from 2.

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Category: bug » feature

Anyway, it's not a bug if the first used number is 0; this report is rather a feature request.

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Title: Auto-incrementation of sames url should start to 2 instead of 0 » Number added to path aliases already used should start from 2
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Title: Number added to path aliases already used should start from 2 » RFC - Number added to path aliases already used should start from 2
Version: 6.x-1.1 » 7.x-1.x-dev

If we change the functionality it would be in 6.x-2.x.

Personally I'm not sure about this. We do use "1" to mean "2" in some pretty visible places http://drupal.org/node?page=1

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Jean-Philippe Fleury commented

Hi greggles,

Personally I think that it's a non-sens to begin counting from 0 when it's for a public interface. It's not ergonomics for most people.

It's true that Drupal's pagination starts from 0, but I consider it as a lack, so I don't think that modules should imitate it. Also, there's a proposed patch to change this behavior in Drupal 7: #385270: Make the GET page variable consistent with the real page number

Thanks.

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Should we maybe merge this with #179298: Make the 'unique' alias suffixes configurable?

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I agree it makes more sense to make the string added to URL aliases configurable.

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Related issues: +#179298: Make the 'unique' alias suffixes configurable