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.

[KeyHunterz]

Thats the same problem I had.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

humm thats weird

possiably because you do not have your forum in a folder but instead you have it in the root of your domain

meaning for example

yourdomain.com/index.php | is your forum
yourdomain.com/forum/index.php | is how i have mine

that could be the reason

cause i know if i go to mydomain.com/somepiclink.jpg
and if i mistype the link then it dose the same thing
but as long as the link is 100% pure then it goes to where i want it to

i guess if you have you forum in the root of your domain hosting then this will not work that well

i guess you could always make a new folder like lets say:

yourdomain.com/member/ then add the httacces file in there

but then that would change things to make it so they have to go to

yourdomain.com/member/there usename here

i dont kow what else to say about that sorry

[Alfa1]

Could you please help me with my question?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....9&postcount=45

[MiahBeSmokin420]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I have one domain, one forum, but two url's pointing to the same domain/forum.


Any idea's?

do this....

make a text document and put in this document the link to your forums

also add both domains in which you want to use or what not

then send it to me by pm or something and then ill get it to work for you

no garentees or what not but ill do what needs to be done if it will work for you i dont know some people cant use this cause they use windows servers but if you are using a linux server it should work fine

just send me that info and ill hook you up

also if you already have httacces files in your folder in which this will be added then send me them in a rar or zip file with the txt doc that way i can make sure you still have your current settings

[jdebler]

Originally Posted by MiahBeSmokin420

do this....

make a text document and put in this document the link to your forums

also add both domains in which you want to use or what not

then send it to me by pm or something and then ill get it to work for you

Please post the solution if you can!

[MiahBeSmokin420]

after i see everything on his site and all that and get it working

then yes i will post the solution if there is one

why are you having problems with this mod as well?

if so what problems are you having and all that good stuff

[jdebler]

Originally Posted by MiahBeSmokin420

after i see everything on his site and all that and get it working

then yes i will post the solution if there is one

Cool!

why are you having problems with this mod as well?

if so what problems are you having and all that good stuff

Nope, no problem on a basic level. Works great. I just want to know what else I can do with it.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

Originally Posted by jdebler

Cool!



Nope, no problem on a basic level. Works great. I just want to know what else I can do with it.

well thats about it

please click install

[T3G4Life]

what if your using VBSeo it does not seem to work, any idea how to fix? Currently the links /members/membername.html

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by MiahBeSmokin420

do this....

make a text document and put in this document the link to your forums

also add both domains in which you want to use or what not

then send it to me by pm or something and then ill get it to work for you

no garentees or what not but ill do what needs to be done if it will work for you i dont know some people cant use this cause they use windows servers but if you are using a linux server it should work fine

just send me that info and ill hook you up

also if you already have httacces files in your folder in which this will be added then send me them in a rar or zip file with the txt doc that way i can make sure you still have your current settings

Any news on this?