This module extends Drupal's URL aliasing to automatically rewrite links for sub-paths to use their aliased equivalents. It ensures that when a user page or other entity with an alias is part of a URL, the entire URL uses the alias, improving SEO and user experience. This works for various situations, including views that use nodes as arguments.
The Drupal Path module matches only full URLs when creating SEO-friendly aliases. This module extends that behavior by also matching known sub-paths and replacing them with their respective alias.
For example, if user/1 is aliased to users/admin, this module rewrites the link to the user contact page user/1/contact to use the aliased URL users/admin/contact instead. This also includes Views URLs taking a node as argument (e.g. node/%/yourview), in short, every URL that is based on, or extends, an existing alias. In combination with the Pathauto module it is possible to get rid of all remaining exposed internal non-administrative URLs.
Requirements
None
Known Issues
- Drupal 7: While Sub-pathauto works when drupal_get_normal_path() is called, if drupal_get_path_alias() is called, the hook to alter URLs is not invoked. Functionality that uses this function to compare things like page visibility settings will not match the sub-path processed URL. This is due to core bug #1248626: drupal_get_path_alias() does not invoke url alter hook while drupal_get_normal_path() does.
Credits
Original module (Subpath URL alias) written by Stefan M. Kudwien (smk-ka).
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- Extended path aliases: Drupal 7 only and requires installing runkit PECL module or patching core.
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- path_alias Drupal core
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