Nicholas Thompson has just committed a new module called Global Redirect.
Essentially, the module checks to see if a given node url has been assigned an alias, and if so, uses a permanent redirect to that alias. Currently if you are using url aliasing - say through the path_auto module - you are left with the old numberic url ("node/1234") and the new aliased url. You therefore risk being punished by Uncle Google for serving duplicate content.
Definatly going to check that one out. If only there was a solution for the forwad-slash problem.
I wonder if extending this module might be a good way to solve that problem.
Do I understand correctly that the logic would need to be:
1) Check if the user is viewing a node
2) If so, check if the url has a trailing slash
3) If it doesn't have a trailing slash, send a 301 redirect to the same url with a trailing slash appended
?
It shouldn't be difficult to add that to the Global Redirect module, if that's all it would take. I'd be happy to write a patch.
It could probably easily be modified for that... However we'd need to definately know there are no cases where a trailing forward slash is definately needed...
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Maybe it should be an option that can be enabled/disabled through a settings page, with the default set to disabled.
That way, it can be off except for people that want to test it out. If there appear to be situations where it is causing problems in some setups, one solution might be a textarea on the settings page where site admins can list urls that shouldn't be tampered with ... similar to how block visibility is handled.
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Possibly - however could this also not be achieved by a nifty piece of Apache redirecting magic (as hyrcan says in his post in the above quoted thread - http://drupal.org/node/83630#comment-154568)
You could also use PHP's header or redirect function, or better, just work on it through Javascript.
I can see the argument for both. The major benefit I'd see from doing it from within Drupal is that - unlike with Apache rewrite rules - you have access to some handy information such as whether the user is viewing a node. The problem that hyrcan ran into re: the login system would be circumvented. As would a whole host of others that would take individual rewrites to deal with, because the information you need just can't be parsed from the url. Plus htaccess modifications are pretty esoteric to a lot of people who are perfectly comfortable installing a contrib module.
BUT -- I think this may all be moot, anyways. Moshe is prompting you to submit your module code as a patch against core. http://drupal.org/node/88146
:)
Taking hyrcan's advice, we've added the proper rewrite rules and are set to push the website to production (we'll see if anything else comes up). After some testing, the decision was made for /node, /admin, and /user not to be effected by the rewrite rules I remember not being able to change some settings if /admin wasn't excluded, while /node was excluded due to some (potentially unrelated) file upload issues and as a just-in-case measure.
In the process of implementing the rewrites, the conf file was tweaked and re-ordered a couple of times due to conflicts with other rewrite directives. Perhaps further proof that it might make more sense to do it on the Drupal level.
As for the logic behind how it should work -- if the path appears to be a file name (i.e. .html), no forward slash should be appended. Otherwise, if it appears to be a directory - it should be treated in the same way Apache treats a directory accessed without a forward slash: it does a 301 redirect.
There's an alternative to using Global Redirect, if you'd rather control things manually. Take a look at my Drupal SEO article, I've got some tips on using .htaccess and robots.txt to achieve similar results without the need for a new module.
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Why not just remove the alias instead of all this redirecting? i think i must be missing something. Nice Drupal theme though.
Got a lot of advice on solving redirection problems here, thank you.
I also believe that such a module is not necessary. Diverting easily achieved file .htaccess
It is great popping in that blog which is a quite old one. But it is good collecting some experiences for better understanding.
You therefore risk being punished by Uncle Google for serving duplicate content.
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Perhaps further proof that it might make more sense to do it on the Drupal level.In the process of implementing the rewrites, the conf file was tweaked and re-ordered a couple of times due to conflicts with other rewrite directives.
alright. Thanks for the instruction. But is that going to make the task easier? Anyways keep posting this warning like information oftenly.
the title of this most is mosr appropriate. I would like to thank you for drawing our attention towards this important issue.
Perhaps further proof that it might make more sense to do it on the Drupal level.In the process of implementing the rewrites, the conf file was tweaked and re-ordered a couple of times due to conflicts with other rewrite directives.
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("node/1234") the remote computer did not respond in the timimg manner, first solve this problem then go to find the soloution for how to enter in "node alias ",thats give a relief fromthat big loozy problem ,i think ?
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Man, if only there were an easy solution to duplicate content!