Miscellaneous Hacks - MySpace type User Profile Link

Tested with vb 3.6.7 and 3.6.8
Tested on IE7 and FF2

Ok lets say your site is:

http://Example.com/Forums/


And the path to members profiles is even longer:

http://Example.com/Forums/member.php...xampleUserName


Well lets give your members a smaller and easy link to remember.


How about:

http://Example.com/Username

Oh ya thats alot better huh?

Ok well this is how you do it.


Add this to the .htaccess in root of example.com

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

Replace this:

http://Example.com/Forums/


With the link to your forums.


All members and guests will be able to go to:

http://Example.com/ThereUserName

And automatically be forwarded to the profile of the user name they entered after the site link.


Thats it just one easy .htaccess file edit and your done.


NOTE:
Want to use a diffrent domain like:

http://ExampleTwo.com/UserName

Just add the .htaccess file to that domain instead

just make sure that whats in red below links to your site

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://Example.com/Forums/member.php?username=$1



Enjoy and click install if you use this mod.

Also Some Credit to Eikinskjaldi for pointing me in the right way to get this working.

[Relientk]

Originally Posted by MiahBeSmokin420

just delete it omg what do you not understand about undo what you did

Oh, ok.

I am new with the whole .htaccess files.

I'm sorry, but why be rude about it?!

[KeyHunterz]

When I install this i cant access my cpanel or admin/modcp. It tries to redirect me to a userprofile.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

sounds weird idk what to say

[dancue]

I have upgraded to 3.7 RC1 and it works!


Template edits will have to change for those areas you'd like to add it to. (Remember to replace yourdomain.com with the respective domain name.)

open memberinfo_block contact info (for the link under contact info within the profile page)
find:

<a href="$prepared[profileurl]">$prepared[profileurl]</a>

replace with:

<a href="http://YourDomain.com/$bbuserinfo[username]">YourDomain.com/$bbuserinfo[username]</a>

open navbar template (This will place it within the welcome block, below private messages)
find:

<if condition="$show['pmwarning']"><div><strong><phrase 1="$vbphrase[pmpercent_nav_compiled]">$vbphrase[your_pm_box_is_x_full]</phrase></strong></div></if>

add below:

<if condition="$show['member']">Your Profile URL: <a href="http://YourDomain.com/$bbuserinfo[username]">YourDomain.com/$bbuserinfo[username]</a>
</if>

[jdebler]

Thanks for this!

Can anyone tell me how would I change the text in the .htaccess code if I wanted the URL to be something like:

http://example.com/users/USERNAME ?

Would the last line be:

RewriteRule ^users/?(.*)$ http://Example.com/Forums/member.php?username=$1 [R]

Just took a guess based on the reading I have done.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

i think if you wanted to do that you would just create a folder in called users and then just add the httacces file in there

but i havent tried that and dont plan on it so i dont know should work though

[indie2industry]

is there a way to stop it from redirecting picture links?? Half of them dont show anymore

[MiahBeSmokin420]

i dont know what you mean

are you saying that you got something like this

a directory called

http://yourdomain.com/pictures
and its redirecting as if it were a member?

if so just add a / at the end
http://yourdomain.com/pictures/


if thats now what you mean then please explain a lil more cause ya i dont know what you mean

[indie2industry]

I just changed some file access permissions. for the pictures.

Now for the problem, when you go to this link

http://www.indie2industry.com/vbdigishop.php?do=product&productid=13

is supposed to take you to this page..

http://www.indie2industry.com/forum/vbdigishop.php?do=product&productid=13&title=producer-agreement-bundle

But instead, it goes here and gives me this for a url

http://indie2industry.com/forum/member.php?username=vbdigishop.php

and the vbulletin message it gives me is

"This user has not registered and therefore does not have a profile to view."

I'll give you a login via pm so you can actually see the problem..

It does this in VARIOUS other areas also, but when I remove the redirect mod, everythings back to normal, except for the Redirect URL, lol

[indie2industry]

i think i see the problem