[development] Re: [infrastructure] Drupal.org should have better URL aliases

[Chris Messina]

That's good to reflect on, but I think that we do need to look at
getting auto aliases into Drupal and then (obviously) figure out how
to make it scale performance-wise... for example, why do you want
multiple aliases per node? That doesn't seem terribly useful.

Anyway, maybe we can simplify the complexity of Drupal's solution in
order for it to scale -- I mean, what good is it if you can only use
it on sites with < 100 aliases?

Chris

On 12/27/05, Dries Buytaert <dries at buytaert.net> wrote:
> > To Adrian's point, node IDs aren't useful to your casual web
> > visitor. Therefore Drupal distros should default to include and
> > have enabled pathauto and perhaps follow the WordPress model (the
> > only model with which I'm familiar; if another system is better,
> > I'd be interested in its structure as well).
>
> I think WP doesn't use an intermediate table that contains (source
> URL, destination URL)-tuples.  Instead, it directly translates the
> URL to a database query that looks up the post.
>
> Drupal:
>   + Any URL can be aliased, not just those related to posts.
>   + Any URL can have multiple aliases: 'team', 'about' and 'about-us'
> can point to the same page or content.  (A bad idea as Google will
> penalize you for this.)
>   - Performance penalty when URL aliases are enabled; up to 100+
> queries/page.  These queries are very fast though.
>   + Very fast when URL aliases are disabled.
>
> WordPress:
>   - Only some URLs can be aliased.
>   - Limited to one alias per post.
>   + Small performance penalty.
>   - Not as fast as Drupal when URL aliases are disabled.
>
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