How to create a redirect to point to the user's id?

Question

I'd like to create a redirect so when the user hits mydrupal.com/my-account its redirected to mydrupal.com/users/3

I'm using Pathauto and I know I can go to admin/config/search/path/add to add the redirect but I can't get it to point to the user id as variable. For instance, in the existing system path option I thought I could add users/[uid] but that didn't work.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Instead of redirecting the mydrupal.com/my-account to particular user ID as mydrupal.com/users/3

You should redirect them to mydrupal.com/user which will lead them to thier profile page if the user is logged in.

Answer 2

As an alternative, you could also use the Rules module for this.

Here is the rule you'd need for it (in Rules export format, just use copy/past to import it in your own setup):

{ "rules_redirect_an_old_path_to_a_new_path" : {
    "LABEL" : "Redirect an old path to a new path",
    "PLUGIN" : "reaction rule",
    "OWNER" : "rules",
    "REQUIRES" : [ "rules" ],
    "ON" : { "init" : [] },
    "IF" : [
      { "text_matches" : {
          "text" : [ "site:current-page:url" ],
          "match" : "the_old_path",
          "operation" : "starts"
        }
      }
    ],
    "DO" : [
      { "drupal_message" : { "message" : "Sorry, the old path (= /the_old_path) is no longer in use, you will be redirected automatically to its corresponding path (= /the_new_path)" } },
      { "redirect" : { "url" : "the_new_path" } }
    ]
  }
}

A few more tweaks to make it fit your exact scenario:

• change all occurences of the_old_path to my-account.
• change all occurences of the_new_path to user.

Whenever such redirect actually happens, the user will also receive an informational message like so:

Sorry, the old path (= /my-account) is no longer in use, you will be redirected automatically to its corresponding path (= /user)

If you don't want such message to appear, then just delete the line containing drupal_message in the exported rule above.

Note: No Pathauto involved using this approach, just Rules.