Drupal - Pathauto Module

Hmm.. so u ppl are back... thank god u are :) , now I have some visits...

Without wasting any time, lets start..This time, vll learn pathauto module..So as always, lets begin by asking "WHY"....

Why are we learning this module?

You might have noticed, when you create a page or a story, it is allocated a URL automatically which by default is node/1 or node/2 and so on.. When your website is live, u obvioulsy wouldn't want to have such un-meaningful URLs. It looks more meaningful, if the URLs contain the type of information that the page displays.

So it time to add some meaning to our URLs..

Here we go now ...

1. So as described in my previous posts, u need to download this DHTML module( just goto drupal.org, click on modules do a search with DHTML menu), unzip it and save it in C:\wamp\www\drupal\sites\all\modules.

2. Make sure that you download the correct version.

3. Once you have downloaded it, start the WAMP server and go to http://localhost/drupal .

4. Now login into your account.

5. Goto Administer- Site Building - Module.

6. Click on URL aliases under Path heading.

7. Click on Add Alias.

8. On Existing Alias path, give the automatically generated path( node/1 ..)

9. On Path Alias, give a meaningful name to be associated with a particular page.

10. Click on Create new Alias and BINGO... there u go..

Thats it for now, keep giving some meaningful names to your pages or polls or wtever... I'll be back with some other important modules...

Happy naming :)....