Shorter Profile Url

[jerx]

Does anybody know which characters will cause problems with this mod? Spaces seem to be a big problem.

It looks like this similar mod does not have any problems with special characters and spaces:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...rofile+rewrite

Does that work for anyone?

[jdebler]

I am using this and it works fine, here is what I have in my /blog/ directory .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/forums/blog.php?username=$1 [R]

But I am wondering if a directory is needed and if this cannot be done in the .htacces file in the main site directory.

I tinkered around with mine, and the closest I came to making it work was by adding the following code to my other lines of code in my .htaccess file in my main site directory:

redirectmatch 301 /blog(/.*)?$ http://www.mydomain.com/forums/blog.php?username=$1

The end result was close, but no cigar...

By going to
http://www.mydomain.com/blog/username
the end result is

http://www.mydomain.com/forums/blog.php?username=/username

That slash before the user name is what breaks it. Anyone know how to fix this?

[bigs15]

I am having a Problem.
When i go to.
http://mysite.com/username
the User id opens
but when i go to
http://mysite.com/member.php?u=2
then also member profile opens ..how do i remove this urls

http://mysite.com/member.php?u=2

[fxdigi-cash]

tried this and didn't work for vb4.2.1

[Buzzle]

Sorry for gravedigging but can someone convert this to nginx?

[CallieJo]

Originally Posted by Buzzle

Sorry for gravedigging but can someone convert this to nginx?

Sorry, I'm not familiar with that. You might try a forum dedicated to nginx. They might be able to convert the rewrite rule to something you can use.