[support] url alias not working?

[will hall]

thanks david i will look into that and report back...

Metzler, David wrote:
> Here's what I think is going on.  
> 
> 1.  You have the path_auto module enabled which is  automatically
> generating aliases for your taxonomy terms. 
> 2.  Your Page Not found message is messed up.  I think that all these
> "2" pages are a misrendering of your page not found page.   You might
> check override settings for that in admin/settings. 
> 3.  Because pathauto is enabled, and generating url aliases (paths) for
> your terms, you're trying to alias an alias which doesn't work. 
> 
> Does that seem like it might be correct? 
> 
> Here's some tests to perform.  Navigate the the Administer Urls admin
> page and look through the list of urls.  You should be able to find one
> for sections/radio that translates to something along the lines of
> taxonomy/term/3 (or whatever the term id of the "radio" term turns out
> to be. 
> 
> Find that system path and make an additional alias that aliases radio to
> the taxonomy/term/3 style path. 
> 
> All should be well, except now you need to try and figure out why your
> page not found message is messed up.....
> 
> Happy hunting, 
> 
> Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of will hall
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:24 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] url alias not working?
> 
> hi earnie, thanks for this, but i don't think i really understand.
> 
> i think you are saying that /radio and /section/radio aren't valid
> values in those fields bc they are themselves aliases. so how do i find
> out the values for the existing system path and alternate path data?
> 
> thanks
> - will
> 
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Quoting will hall <will at theicarusproject.net>:
>>
>>> hi, thanks for the replies.
>>>
>>> the categories module is generating a vocabulary titled 'section'
>>>
>>> so /section/radio lists all the nodes tagged with that taxonomy term.
>>>
>>> however /section just returns the header and footer, no blocks, and 
>>> the number '2'
>>>
>>> this is very strange bc /section/radio or /section/blog return those 
>>> taxonomy item tagged nodes no problem. but when i put the url alias 
>>> in for /radio to return /section/radio, it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> this is important bc we switched to drupal recently and there are a 
>>> lot of links out there to /radio
>>>
>>> thanks for help
>>>
>> You need to use relative URI for the URL Alias module data.
>>
>> The ``Existing system path'' data should be something like ``node/1'' 
>> with out the quotes of course and the ``alternate path'' data should 
>> be something like ``first_article''.
>>
>> Also, you can't alias the alias because the alias isn't an ``Existing 
>> system path''.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com
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