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Drupal path aliases
April 26, 2010, 05:29:11 am
Not sure if this is a Drupal issue or a CiviCRM issue, but it sure would be useful to be able to use Drupal's path aliasing functionality to address CiviCRM's less than pretty URLs.

More than purely for cosmetic and SEO reasons (although that would be plenty) I'd love to be able to target blocks at specific CiviCRM pages. Any workarounds for that?

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Re: Drupal path aliases
April 26, 2010, 07:39:30 am
Drupal paths aliases work, but the bigggest challenge is that they only work on paths, i.e. not query strings, and you usually want the granularity that includes the query string.

So, if you just want to include blocks on /civicrm/contribute paths, that works, and you can alias that to say, /donate, but you'll still have the query strings attached. You can't have your block only appear on one contribute page and not another.

For the purposes of advertising a donate url, for example, there are two strategies:

1. send them to a landing page that links to the actual civicrm contribute page
2. use apache to redirect a nice url to the civicrm contribute page.

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Re: Drupal path aliases
April 27, 2010, 02:03:51 am
Alan

Many thanks for the advice. I'll work on the basis of the pointer you offer.

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