Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.There is logic to the separation of Pathauto behavior and Path Redirect behavior... if you have full knowledge about their internal workings. Site builders don't have that knowledge.
A proposal was made to 'integrate' the options behavior, in #827830: Make option 'Automatically create redirects when URL aliases are changed.' compatible with Pathauto 6.x-1.3. Maybe that's a good idea; I don't feel qualified to comment on potential effects of such a change. And it doesn't seem to completely solve possible confusion, because the Pathauto option will still say "delete alias" when in fact 'the alias will be redirected to the new one'.
Another way to get around this is simply to explain to people, why the two options are there. I think they can live with it, as long as they know what to do. (And #827830 could be re-closed.)
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| path_redirect-setting-descn.patch | 866 bytes | roderik |
Comments
Comment #2
roderikOK - can someone else check why tests are failing (actual tests - not the patch process) when this patch clearly doesn't introduce a functional change?
*sets back to CNR and hopes the test bot won't start re-testing*
Comment #3
Dave ReidPatches need to be created against the latest code, which is always 6.x-1.x-dev. We maybe have test failures unrelated to your patch, so feel free to ignore those for now, but do make sure your patch applies to 6.x-1.x-dev.