Working with URL aliases in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha 0 Minutes, 54 Seconds to Read Drupal allows you to further customize your website by setting up search engine optimized URLs called aliases. In this tutorial, we’ll explain further what URL aliases are and how you can use them in your Drupal 7 website. What are URL Aliases URL aliases allow you to provide a more understandable URL to content such as pages and articles in Drupal. On our site, since we have not set up an alias for “Our test page” it’s actual URL is “node/5”. URL aliases allow us to customize the URL with a more meaningful URL so we can actually change the URL from “node/5” to “our_test_page”. So let’s take a look at an example: Before After drupal.inmotiontesting.com/node/5 drupal.inmotiontesting.com/out_test_page How to enable URL Aliases in Drupal 7 Log into the Drupal dashboard Go to Configuration >> Search and Meta Data >> URL Aliases Click Add alias Fill in the Existing system path and the Path alias Click Save For more step-by-step guides and practical tips, visit our Drupal Education Channel. Share this Article Carrie Smaha Senior Manager Marketing Operations Carrie enjoys working on demand generation and product marketing projects that tap into multi-touch campaign design, technical SEO, content marketing, software design, and business operations. More Articles by Carrie Related Articles Finding 404 page not found errors in Drupal 7 Removing the site title in Drupal 8 Content Types in Drupal 8 Disabling user images for posts and comments in Drupal 8 How to add an image in Drupal 7 How to upload your custom logo in your Drupal 7 theme Setting custom logos in your Drupal 8 theme Fixing the “An unrecoverable error occurred” error in Drupal How to Make a Duplicate Drupal Site How to Install a New Theme in Drupal
