pathauto and catagory path aliases for forums.

By bwooster47 on 15 Jan 2006 at 15:54 UTC

I am trying to see if there is a way to avoid having pathauto need to add _0 to a forum taxonomy.

This happens because the name of the forum and the category is the same, for example, at the drupal site:
Installation problems forum is forum/1 as well as taxonomy/term/1

Fiddling around with pathauto settings, it uses a single rule for both the situations - the "Category path settings" box, specifically the "Pattern for all Forums paths:" entry.

So, there is no way to avoid having a _0 pattern appended, for example, in the case above, you get:

forums/installation
forums/installation_0

each pointing to, respectively:

forum/1
taxonomy/term/1

Seems like the first case (forum/1) should use the node rules instead of "Category path settings"?

Is this something that can be fixed in the config, or this is a new feature request, or this is something impossible?

Would be great if I could have the full forum (with the index) show up at forums/installation - so that should map to forum/1, and then have the pathauto generated alias for the taxonomy be "category/forums/installation" where I use the cat prefix to refer to all taxonomy aliases.

forums/installation
category/forums/installation

Comments

Seconded.

CrowChick commented 22 February 2006 at 23:38

I also have a need for an answer to this.

having the same problem with forums and pathauto alias

trueMarketing commented 1 March 2006 at 22:46

I thought I was the only one having this issue since I could only find this thread discussing it.

I'm using pathauto to generate all my URLs in Drupal, so like your example, I get something like this:

/forum/side-effects/ &
/forum/side-effects-0/

both of which point to the same location regardless of what I put into pathauto settings for the forum aliases.

This is an issue and I'd really like to use the forum Drupal comes with, but I can't use it like this.

Any help would be appreciated.

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pathauto and category path aliases - manual workaround

bwooster47 commented 3 March 2006 at 00:30

Don't have a fix or patch for this, but since others are running into the same problem, just wanted to point out that a manual workaround exists.

Since forums or categories are not created that often, once you have the term created, then just go to the url aliases administration button, and rename the _0 aliases as needed, and swap the old alias where needed.