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I work with Drupal 8.

I've set an url alias for my page to /nice-url. When I acces it via http://mypage.com/nice-url everything works fine.

The problem is, this page is still accessable via http://mypage.com/node/37 - it's bad for SEO and it produces some mess.

Is it possible to remove that http://mypage.com/node/37 page? I mean I want the content of that page to accessable only via http://mypage.com/nice-url.

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  • I know you are looking for drupal 8. But for drupal 7 this same question-Answer is available, you can check to get idea to apply for your need. Convert link from node/nid to Pathauto url? – CodeNext Jul 10 '16 at 1:34
  • it's bad for SEO That's simply not true. Run it through any SEO tool, it will report that canonical meta tags are used properly, as recommended by all major search engines – Clive♦ Jul 10 '16 at 9:32
  • @Clive agree about SEO - but still... bots generate twice as much traffic for no reason; secondly: redundancy is never good (for example: I could forget about double way of accessing same page and make some twigs that will affect one of it and not the other etc.) – PolGraphic Jul 11 '16 at 6:23
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You don't want to deny access to it but simply redirect to the aliased URL.

That feature is provided by the Redirect module and there's also a core issue to make core do that automatically.

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  • The core issue you linked to looks promising. I see that it provides solution for'- path alias redirect, for example from "node/1" to "content/my-node" which is exactly what I need. But - how to use it/enable it? – PolGraphic Jul 11 '16 at 6:26
  • You don't. It's a work in progress patch. Use the redirect module. As I said, it does the same – Berdir Jul 11 '16 at 6:38
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You could check the URI:

$uri = RequestStack $requestStack->getCurrentRequest()->getRequestUri();

If the URI is 'node/37' you can throw new AccessDeniedHttpException();

But I don't think that this will improve your SEO.

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