How to link the title in a teaser to the main content?

Question

I have created a view that provides teaser content for different nodes.

This teaser content carries a main title and some more fields. I want to make the title as a link, which when clicked, takes the user to a page that displays the full node.

I tried enabling the "Link this field to its entity" for the title field in its view, but clicking on that link takes me to a page like:

http://localhost:8082/node/<node id>

I want it to go to a prettier looking URL like:

http://localhost:8082/<pretty URL>

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

If you are using a node title field, then the "Link this field to its entity" option should definitely work.

By default it will link to

localhost:8082/node/123

where 123 is the node ID of the node.

If you want a nicer URL, like

localhost:8082/title

where title is the title of the node (or something similar), try the pathauto module, which allows you to define settings that automatically create pretty urls for nodes (and users and taxonomy terms, etc.). The pretty urls can use tokens, like [node:title], which will be replaced by the title of the node for example.

Answer 2

The PathAuto module, (already mentioned by rooby) will "prettify" URLs for you automatically.

If you instead wants to do this yourself, check out Admin/Configuration/URL aliases. This let you create aliases by hand (such as "Title" for "node/123").