By Anonymous (not verified) on

How can we hide specific easily identifyable drupal elements, to be able to hide that someone even not so pro to identify the site is built with drupal.

Such as:
Hiding the node/ node/1 ... node/n in some way.
Also changing the /user /user/register paths.
...
Please add your own which you think is identifies the site easily made by drupal.

I think this is also a way to be able to hide the site(s) from hackers, lamers etc.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I mean hiding by not accessible or 404 errors, and not being able to accessible from browsers address bar.

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sepeck commented

http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/path
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/pathauto

You will still able to access the normal path's if you know they are there. Those still need to exist as the others merely alias to them.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Clean URL (Path pathauto) does change the node to a specified or automatic clean URL.

It seems to be I was not clear enough.

My question was how can I hide nodes, or other know drupal links (like node node/1 node/2 etc.) when somebody checks (guesses) if it is a drupal site or not. If my intention is to hide that the side is drupal.

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mwu commented

drupal/css

pathauto does not scale.

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sepeck commented

Is this based on experience with the unpatched 4.6 module or the completely refactored 4.7 module? And by scale are we thinking hundreds of node vs thousands vs tens of thousands?

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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mwu commented

i thought i had read some posts about 4.7 sites also having this problem.

i believe the scale is tens of thousands.

i myself am trying to scale for something large.

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mwu commented

there's a bunch of stuff in misc.
you'd want to remove or rename them.

also a lot of things need to be commented out

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MarekP commented

3dguru is right. Drupal creates a lot of duplicate content. Many pages exist on different URLs. This is not good and should be avoided. Once I rename a path, the original URL should either redirect to the new one or return 404. Is this possible?