I am running the mobile tools module for a mobile website I have. Generally speaking, one sets the module to redirect from the desktop site to the mobile site. I.e., if you are on a smartphone and try to navigate to site.com, the phone browser will be detected and the user will be automatically redirected to m.site.com, for example.

There is a place where one can enter exceptions to this redirection. This is where I am having some trouble with pathauto.

For reasons that are too esoteric to explain here, I need to be able to log into my desktop version of my site on my mobile phone and bulk update URL aliases. I can get to the bulk update tab fine. The problem is when I execute the bulk update command (for nodes for example).

Upon executing the command, the URL changes from this:

admin/build/path/update_bulk

To this:

batch?op=start&id=XX (where XX is a double digit number; could be a triple digit as well)

In the "redirection exceptions" box I have put in the following but have had no luck preventing redirection to the mobile site:

batch?op=start&id=*
batch?op=start&id=31
batch?op=start&id=32 (the actual numbers are in anticipation of future ids)

I suspect that something happens between the activation of the bulk update command and the execution of the command itself.

Is there a wildcard I can place to make this work?

(I have posted a version of this issue on the mobile tools issue page, in case someone there has the answer, but I suspect that this is more related to pathuto.) Thank you for your help.

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dave reid’s picture

dave reid
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Location Nebraska USA
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Make sure you have exceptions for:
admin
admin/*
batch
batch*

greggles’s picture

greggles
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Status: Active » Fixed

I agree with Dave, but also think that this is more an issue for mobile tools than Pathauto.

It's about the batch interface in general, not Pathauto.

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trazom commented

Brilliant, thank you, I guess I was not intercepting the batch process early enough.

One last question if I may: Is it possible to bypass the bulk update tab completely; that is, I know what I want to do every time I visit the tab -- bulk update node and taxonomy term paths.

Thus, is it possible to create a simple link (using html, placed on a menu somewhere) that will encapsulate/incorporate/execute those two commands and begin the batch process without me having to manually check the two boxes and press the submit button?

Many thanks for your kind assistance.

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trazom commented

Yes, I see now that this is not a batch processing issue.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.