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PODrupal 7 - URL rewriting with hook_url_*_alter() doesn't seem to be working
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copied!<p>Here's my situation: I have a bunch of HTML pages in sites/default/files/pdf. I want to serve them as is so I have links to them in my Drupal site. However, one of the requirements is that all the URLs of these HTML pages must not contain any extensions. In addition, I want it to act in such a way that when users go to example.com/sites/default/files/pdf/somehtmlfile, the URL will show as example.com/pdf/somehtmlfile and also when users visit example.com/pdf/somehtmlfile, example.com/sites/default/files/pdf/somehtmlfile will be served instead.</p> <p>From my independent research, it seems that I should be using hook_url_inbound_alter() and hook_url_outbound_alter(). However, I seem to be doing something wrong because the URL does not change at all.</p> <p>Below is my code. I created a module called html_extension_remover (not very imaginative name, I know). I have successfully activated the module and some debugging statements are run successfully, so I know that the module is running.</p> <p> <pre><code>function html_extension_remover_url_outbound_alter(&$path, &$options, $original_path){ $pdf_regex = '|^sites/default/files/pdf(/.*)?|'; $pdf_new_path = 'pdf'; if (preg_match($pdf_regex,$path, $matches)) //rewrite all request to sites/default/files/pdf to pdf, looks nicer if (count($matches)==1) $path = $pdf_new_path; else $path = $pdf_new_path . $matches[1]; //append the rest of the URL, after the Regex match if (strpos($path, $pdf_new_path)!=FALSE) //URL contains pdf, means viewing converted PDFs in pdf dir if (strpos($path, '.htm')!=FALSE){ //if viewing .htm/.html file $path = substr(0, strpos); //strip extension from URL } $pdf_new_path = 'sites/default/files/pdf'; $pdf_regex = '|^pdf(/.*)?|'; if (preg_match($pdf_regex, $path, $matches)){ if (count($matches)==1){ $path = $pdf_new_path; } else{ $path = $pdf_new_path.$matches[1].'.htm'; } } } function html_extension_remover_url_inbound_alter(&$path, &$options, $original_path){ $pdf_new_path = 'sites/default/files/pdf'; $pdf_regex = '|^pdf(/.*)?|'; if (preg_match($pdf_regex, $path, $matches)){ if (count($matches)==1){ $path = $pdf_new_path; } else{ $path = $pdf_new_path.$matches[1].'.htm'; } } } </code></pre>

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