Path Redirect is doing nothing

I'm having the exact same problem with my installation! It doesn't do anything.

This is Not fixed in the 6.x-1.x-dev version either.

Changing priority to critical since the module does not work!
Btw, I'm using Drupal 6.12

Ok I take a look at it. Do both of you have clean URLs enabled/disabled? Do you have language prefixing enabled? Anything to help me debug this?

I noticed that that D6 version is using hook_init() rather than hook_boot(). My understanding is that hook_init() doesn't fire for cached pages. This would cause this type of "nothing is happening" behavior for non-logged-in users on sites with page caching turned on.

Yes, I have clean URLs enabled. I also have Locale installed but I'm not using any prefixes. I have tried clearing the cache and logging out, but this does not help.

Using hook_init() should work just fine since Drupal doesn't cache 404 pages. Therefore the code should execute everytime the path is requested.

Using hook_init() should work just fine since Drupal doesn't cache 404 pages. Therefore the code should execute everytime the path is requested.

Interesting, but what if you're redirecting an existing path to something better.. For instance redirecting "/node" to "/my-better-views-listing"...

But perhaps I'm getting off-topic for this thread.

Oh, path redirect shouldn't be used for existing paths. I think the from field is actually validated so that you can't use existing paths. In that case path alises and global redirect should be used.

Say what?
What you're saying is that path redirect will never work with any existing paths? This is the whole concept of a redirect.

Hmm... I cannot get this to work even though I have deleted the existing path.

Lets say that I already have a valid URL alias (since I have saved my node and this creates an alias).
The node is now accessible from both the http://www.example.com/alias and http://www.example.com/node/x which is not good.

Lets enable the path redirect module to fix this... (as I have done on all of my previous websites)

I enable the path redirect module and goto the settings in URL alias, check the "Create a new alias. Redirect from old alias".
Re-save the http://www.example.com/node/x, which re-save the alias and automatically create a 301 redirect from http://www.example.com/node/x to http://www.example.com/alias... but no 301 is being done, both URLs are accessible as if path redirect is doing nothing.

When I go to the URL redirects list I would expect to see a redirect from http://www.example.com/node/x to the http://www.example.com/alias by a 301 permanently moved. But nothing happen... both URLs work.

Well, lets add a redirect directly since it should work to redirect a core node path to an alias created with pathauto, right?
From: node/x
To: alias
Language: All languages

The redirect is listed but does not work. If I instead enter as the To the redirect works, well actually not correct since in this case redirects to the path entered as the standard front page http://www.example.com/frontpage, and not the http://www.example.com as would be expected.

So my guess is that something is still wrong with the module.

What the maintainer said is that already a module that works with existing paths; if this module would do the same thing, then it would be a duplicate, in term of functionality, of the other module.