enforce naming conventions for page aliases by content type

Question

I would like to set mandatory url naming conventions for custom content type nodes.

When users create a new content type I want to force certain naming conventions for the url alias. For example:

when creating 'Type A' and 'Type B' pages they should have aliases of the form:

• www.example.com/a/{user-assigned} (Type A)
• www.example.com/b/{user-assigned} (Type B)

is there a way to do this in Drupal 8?

Answer 1

Yes, this use case is covered under the Pathauto module.

Essentially, you'll add a new Content patterns (from the admin UI in admin/config/search/path/patterns) for each of your content types with the following path pattern, my_type/[node:author:account-name].

As long as the user doesn't have the Administer URL aliases & Create and edit URL aliases permissions, their created content path will be set automatically without being able to change the path.