Editing content ignores pathauto patterns

I've checked that already i'm afraid, the update action i have set is;

Create a new alias, replacing the old one

So lets say i run pathauto to bulk update all nodes then i go and edit a piece of content called

/vocab/catpath/title.html

i see this in the "path alias:" /vocab/catpath/title.html then lets say i change it to anything it just completeley ignores what ever is typed into this window as well and reverts itself back to an alias of "title.html"

I've also dumped the contents of the url alias table to see if it was due to some kind of corruption and done the bulk update from scratch and the problem remains.

Ok well i guess the work around is to set the update action is to "do nothing" then when editing content the alias does not get changed to just be "[title].html" and if i make a manual change to the path alias entry when editing content the manual change is saved correctly.

Ok well an example of this is a piece of content i have with the title of;

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux"

It is in the category "Red Hat" and has the term "Enterprise Linux" associated with it and the pathauto path pattern for all nodes is this; [vocab]/[catpath]/[title].html

So the path alias should be;

"red_hat/enterprise_linux/red_hat_enterprise_linux.html"

Which is exactly what happens when a bulk update occurs, so so far everything is functioning perfectly now i want to edit the piece of content note that in the pathauto settings the update action is "Create a new alias, replacing the old one"

When i edit the content it shows the path alias to be "red_hat/enterprise_linux/red_hat_enterprise_linux.html" which is correct, however when i click submit the path alias gets changed to this "red_hat_enterprise_linux.html"

Hope this helps?

- This is using the very latest version changelog file date is 03/10/05 6:08PM

We host our own server and mysql permissions aren't an issue, although i checked the logs anyway and couldn't generate any error messages when testing edit/updating the content.

Currently the list of enabled modules i have is as follows;

attachment
banner
filemanager
forms
glossary
image
img_assist
menu
node
nodelist
path
pathauto
poormanscron
print
search
simplenews
story
taxonomy
tinymce
upload
urlfilter

Seeing as you haven't been able to find anything i'll try and replicate the issue over the next couple of days with a seperate instance/database with maybe just drupal/pathauto and no other modules installed and see what happens.

Thanks for the assistance!

Unfortunatley i don't have permission to access those files in your previous posts - do i have to request a higher level of access on the site? Anyway i can confirm that a clean install of drupal + just pathauto doesn't have any issues and functions correctly with 4.6.3 and the latest pathauto so i'm guessing that perhaps another module that i have installed and maybe removed? has knocked the pathauto functionality? Editing content and creating new content create the alias that is defined in the pathauto settings properly with the new instance. So i'm going to move data to the new setup and keep loading modules and see what happens if i can repeat what caused the problem on this new instance i'll post again otherwise i think that the issue can probably be closed. Thanks for all the assistance.

Ok well i'm postin again because i'm getting the same problem on my new drupal instance, however i've downloaded the pathauto.inc files as suggested and can report that when editing content i see the following when pathauto works

* [cat]=HP_9000
* [vocab]=Hewlett_Packard
* [catalias]=hewlett_packard/hp_9000/index.html
* [catpath]=HP_9000/
* Created new alias hewlett_packard/emulex_lp9002s.html for node/106, replacing emulex_lp9002s.html
* The story was updated.

however when changing to the category/term in my previous post "Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux" the following happens and obviously pathauto doesn't work;

* [cat]=
* [vocab]=
* [catalias]=
* [catpath]=
* Created new alias emulex_lp9002s.html for node/106, replacing hewlett_packard/emulex_lp9002s.html
* The story was updated.

by the way my pathauto settings for nodes is the following;

[vocab]/[title].html

Perhaps there is a problem in the length number of spaces of the category or term that could be causing the problem???

Yeah you're right I don't believe that there is an issue related to the length of the term field or special characters - unfortunatley i tried that second pathauto_node.inc file and i think there maybe a bug in it? as it seems to break my site blank pages when logging in after submitting on editing content etc.

Thanks.

Or maybe that is a sympton of the issue? A clash with something else maybe?

Ah should check my logs before posting this is the error recorded in the log

Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/drupal2/modules/pathauto/pathauto_node.inc:270) in /var/www/drupal2/includes/common.inc on line 192.

Yeah i've double checked that retested etc. with that second one but without success, the first one works fine...

The site is now live by the way check it out here http://www.icesystems.com.au its been converted over from Mambo which we have been running for the last 2 years.

Still no luck i'm afraid although i think you're right something else is blocking the taxonomy information loading when editing the content - one thing i noticed although i don't know exactly how this could cause the issue is i have the following categories for example;

HP BladeSystem
then a bunch of Image Gallery categories
Red Hat Enterprise Linux

what seems to happen is that pathauto correctly work i.e. picks up the taxonomy for categories located before the image gallery categories and cannot for those located after the image gallery categories (alphabetically only i.e. as they are displayed in administer/categories not as they appear in the database) i tested this by creating a new vocab called A with a new term B and another new vocab called Z with a term Y - when changing a story to A/B pathauto worked and a new urlalias was created correctly according to the rules, however when the story was moved to Z/Y it could not pickup the taxonomy and the urlalias was created using the title of the story only, wierd eh?

Ah ha nice work finding the issue mikeryan and i can confirm that it works in my environment as well woohoo!!! However it looks like the fix may have had a knock-on effect so i didn't want to create a seperate report for it, anyway when editing content i noticed that the pathauto alias is only getting updated when submitted the second time, e.g. i create a story called test and put it in a category called "A" then click submit and the page is created but no pathauto alias is created when i edit that content again and just click submit the pathauto alias is then created and when changing the category the change to the path alias only occurs when the content is edited a second time so i'm assuming that the module is not registering that the category has changed on the page and is only reading the change when it occurs in the database. Thanks for the effort!

Ah that brought back the previous issue where pathauto would work properly when changing to categories listed before the Image Gallery categories but not for ones after and would just create an alias based on the title. :)

Thats the ticket, it works like a charm! Thanks Mike great work!