By sinker on

I've got pathauto doing pretty much everything I'd like it to be doing, except for one major thing.

Currently, a user blog, at the base level looks like this:

[user]/blog/[title]

So that, for example, Jimmy's blog entry called "Thursday" appears in the URL as jimmy/blog/thursday

Great!

And if I step one down, simply to Jimmy/blog, I get ALL of the blog entries in Jimmy's blog. That's perfect.

But when I step one down again, simply to jimmy/ I get a "page not found"

What I'd LIKE to be there is Jimmy's profile instead (that way also, the URL www.mysite.com/jimmy would pull up Jimmy's profile.

I would think that's a simple thing. Simply put [user] in the User path settings and leave it at that. But that's not working. Instead, when I pull up the profile for Jimmy, I get www.mysite.com/jimmy_0

What have I done wrong in the configuration of pathauto to get such a non-intuitive response?

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venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

Simply put [user] in the User path settings and leave it at that. But that's not working. Instead, when I pull up the profile for Jimmy, I get www.mysite.com/jimmy_0

That means you have another alias called jimmy. Check the url alias table at administer>>url aliases.

My sites are down at the moment, otherwise I might have been able to help you with the correct placeholders for pathauto.

sinker’s picture

sinker commented

That means you have another alias called jimmy.

But I don't. Right now I'm still beta testing the site, so there are five users total. None of their names are duplicates. Now one thing is that I have changed around what page appears at the root level of the user's name. It used to be the blog, now I would like it to be the profile. Perhaps that's where the problem's coming from. Do I need to wipe some stuff out?

mynameisbrian’s picture

mynameisbrian commented

I know it's been a long time since this was posted, but did you ever find a solution to this? I just installed Drupal 5.0 along with the pathauto module, and I'm having this exact same problem. Users are only aliased by www.example.com/username_0, when I want them to be aliased by www.example.com/username

zro’s picture

zro commented

I'm using 5, and had the same issue.
As stated previously, when i checked in admin>site building> url aliases I did indeed find a duplicate of the path I was attempting to use, hence the user-0 instead of user. I do not know where this other entry was from, but it was there.
._-zro