 readm pleas read this file and also the instaltxt they contain answer to mani common question if you are develop for this modul the apitxt may be interest if you are upgrad check the changelogtxt for major chang descript the pathauto modul provid support function for other modul to automat generat alias base on appropri criteria with a central set path for site administr implement are provid for core content type node taxonomi term and user includ blog and tracker page pathauto also provid a way to delet larg number of alias this featur is avail at administ site build url alias delet alias benefit besid make the page address more reflect of its content than node 138 it s import to know that modern search engin give heavi weight to search term which appear in a page url by automat use keyword base direct on the page content in the url relev search engin hit for your page can be signific enhanc instal and upgrad see the instaltxt file notic pathauto just add url alias to node user and taxonomi term becaus it s an alia the standard drupal url for exampl node 123 or taxonomi term 1 will still function as normal if you have extern link to your site point to standard drupal url or hardcod link in a modul templat node or menu which point to standard drupal url it will bypass the alia set by pathauto there are reason you might not want two url for the same content on your site if this appli to you pleas note that you will need to updat ani hard code link in your node or block if you use the system path ie node 10 for menu item and set like that drupal will replac it with the urlalia for extern link you might want to consid the path redirect or global redirect modul which allow you to set forward either per item or across the site to your alias url url not get replac with alias pleas bear in mind that onli url pass through drupal l or url function will be replac with their alias dure page output if a modul or your templat contain hardcod link such as href node node nid those won t get replac with their correspond alias use the drupal api instead href url node node nid or l your link titl node node nid see http apidrupalorg api head function url and http apidrupalorg api head function l for more inform disabl pathauto for a specif node type or taxonomi when the pattern for a node type is left blank the default pattern will be use but if the default pattern is also blank pathauto will be disabl for that node type bulk updat must be run multipl time as of 5x2x pathauto now perform bulk updat in a manner which is more like to succeed on larg site the drawback is that it need to be run multipl time if you want to reduc the number of time that you need to run pathauto you can increas the maximum number of object to alia in a bulk updat set under general set wysiwyg conflict fckeditor tinymc etc if you use a wysiwyg editor pleas disabl it for the pathauto admin page failur to do so may caus error about pregreplac problem due to the tag being added to the string to replac see http drupalorg node 175772 credit the origin modul combin the function of mike ryan autopath with tommi sundstrom pathautomat signific enhanc were contribut by jdmquin wwwbcdemnet matt england added the tracker support other suggest and patch contribut by the drupal communiti current maintain greg knaddison http growingventuresolutcom mike ryan http mikeryanname frederik freso s olesen http fresodk chang see the changelogtxt file id readmtxt v 116 20080621 182038 greggl exp  