[support] Multiple path aliases?

[DTH]

Using the core path module it's possible to set up multiple aliases
for the same node art admin/build/path/add [assuming D6] (e.g. foo/bar
and baz/bar can both be aliases to node/4). Where the problem lies is
that this doesn't play well with  menus, so if you want to have both
foo/bar and baz/bar in a menu it's not going to work as going to
baz/bar will trigger active trails to foo/bar as well.

Depending on your site structure/number of cloned pages/how often
content changes etc, the way I've handled this in the past includes:

1. If there's only a few pages or if the content never/rarely changes
just suck it up and quickly copy over the contents to a new node
2. Use views (e.g. create a node called bar, and views with paths foo
and baz that take bar as an argument)
3. Either on the same content type or a new content type called Cloned
Content etc, have a node reference field and then configure your
display/templates to show the referenced content, so your workflow
would be: create foo/bar and then if  the same content is needed
elsewhere, create a new node and choose foo/bar as the node reference,
and then save it in the appropriate place in the menu as baz/bar.

This last one is what I do currently (after somebody mentioned it on
the list a while back when I asked a very similar question).

> From: Gerald Klein <jk at zognet.com>
> Subject: Re: [support] Multiple path aliases?
>
> Hi and thanks for the post, this is a great module but doesn't serve my
> purpose. This module just redirects to another URL, I need something that
> allows the setting of multiple aliases for the same page and the URL
> remains intact after load. I want for example:
> http://somesite/project1/bill
> and
> http://somesite/project2/bill
>
> to point to the same content.
>
> But thanks for this module I can see it's usefuleness.
>
> thanks for help and in advance for anyone who knows the answer to my
> problem.
>
> thanks again
>
> --jerry
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Steve Edwards <killshot91 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Try PAth Redirect.
>>
>> http://drupal.org/project/path_redirect
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Gerald Klein wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I have a site that I am working on that employees appear in a number
>> of areas. To make the nav complete I have to recreate their pages multiple
>> times. I have loaded the actual content into blocks and cloned them so I
>> can solve that problem, but it would be much cleaner if I could simply
>> apply multiple path aliases to a sinble page. Does anyone know how this can
>> be done?
>>
>> thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> --jerry
>>
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