Automatic path alias allows a group still under approval to overwrite an already approved and pre-existing group [#690366]

Thanks to dipen chaudhary, who reported a problem with an existing group, I noticed that a group under moderation was using a path alias that was already assigned to an existing group (http://groups.drupal.org/india). The consequence is that the old group (which was already approved) was not anymore visible, and even using the breadcrumb shown for a post of the old group, the users were redirected to the new (still not approved) group.

I fixed the problem by using a different path alias for the group under approval, and that resolved the problem.

Still, there is a problem with the path aliases. If somebody would create a new group with the same name of an existing one, then the problem should show again.

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Comment #1

apaderno

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CreditAttribution: apaderno commented 20 January 2010 at 11:47

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Group in moderation uses the same alias of an existing (approved) and doesn't allow the other group to be seen anymore

» Group in moderation uses the same alias of an existing (approved) group and doesn't allow the other group to be seen anymore

FYI, the group in moderation is http://groups.drupal.org/india2.

I tried setting back the path alias setting to use an automatic alias, and I get back the same result as before. IMO, the path alias used should be checked to verify if there isn't already an alias with the same name.

Comment #2

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CreditAttribution: apaderno commented 20 January 2010 at 11:58

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Group in moderation uses the same alias of an existing (approved) group and doesn't allow the other group to be seen anymore

» Automatic path alias allows a group still under approval to overwrite an already approved and pre-existing group

It seems the problem is only with the automatic alias; I tried to change the path alias for http://groups.drupal.org/india2 to missouri, but I get an error message.

Comment #3

dipen chaudhary CreditAttribution: dipen chaudhary commented 20 January 2010 at 12:00

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Automatic path alias allows a group still under approval to overwrite an already approved and pre-existing group

» Group in moderation uses the same alias of an existing (approved) group and doesn't allow the other group to be seen anymore

I can confirm this, Since the new group was created (sometime in jan 2010) I have not been able to access the old group, The posts like http://groups.drupal.org/node/41560 were showing India in breadcrumbs, but clicking on the group would take me to the new group in moderation (which is india2 now).

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CreditAttribution: apaderno commented 20 January 2010 at 12:04

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Group in moderation uses the same alias of an existing (approved) group and doesn't allow the other group to be seen anymore

» Automatic path alias allows a group still under approval to overwrite an already approved and pre-existing group

I also tried to create a group with the same name of an existing one, and the automatic alias was created to avoid clashes with the existing one (a -0 was happened to the lower case group name).

I will leave this report open, so somebody else can check what allowed to the automatic path alias to be the same of the already existing one.