Path: readable URLs

The path module allows you to specify aliases for Drupal URLs. Such aliases improve readability of URLs for your users and may help internet search engines to index your content more effectively. More than one alias may be created for a given page.

Some examples of URL aliases are:

• user/login => login
• image/tid/16 => store
• taxonomy/term/7+19+20+21 => store/products/whirlygigs
• node/3 => contact
• node/10 => products/merchandise/cups
• node/10 => cups
• node/11 => products/merchandise/coffeemakers

The path module enables an extra field for aliases in all node input and editing forms (when users have the appropriate permissions). It also provides an interface to view and edit all URL aliases.

This module also comes with user-defined mass URL aliasing capabilities, which is useful if you wish to uniformly use URLs different from the default. For example, you may want to have your URLs presented in a different language. Access to the Drupal source code on the web server is required to set up these kinds of aliases.

You can

• set the path for a post with the path module.
• add a URL alias: administer >> url aliases >> add alias.
• administer the list of URL aliases: administer >> url aliases.
• read how to configure clean URLs [http://drupal.org/node/15365] for your webserver.
• enable Clean URLS to remove the =? at administer >> settings in the General settings area.
• automate URL alias creation by installing and using the pathauto module [http://drupal.org/node/17345].