[Forum] replace user id with username in links

[ababneh]

Hi
A few days ago I used to have an external seo plugin installed that made all links for members areas look like
http://www.mysitei.com/forum/members/username/

after I uninstalled the plugin, all these links switched to

http://www.mysite.com/forum/member.php?u=*** (***=user id in numbers)

How would I get the links to show the username rather than the Id (without installing external plugins)

thanks
ababneh

[ENF]

You could try...

This: https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/...ofriendly_urls

mod_rewite friendly URL's may be the closest thing to match your needs without using a plugin or third-party solution.

[ababneh]

Hi,
I enabled mode-rewire from admincp and used the .htaccess file included in the dont_upload folder and now it changes the url to:
http://www.mysitei.com/forum/members/ID-username/
I am trying to get the mod to just use
http://www.mysitei.com/forum/members/username/

this is my .htaccss and I tried to change with the line

 [COLOR=#333333]RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA] [/COLOR]

but with no good knowledge of these rules I wasn't lucky to make it work to my liking

[COLOR=#333333]RewriteEngine on[/COLOR][COLOR=#333333]
[/COLOR][COLOR=#333333]
# If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory.
# RewriteBase /forum/

# If you are having problems with the rewrite from content/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off.
# Options -MultiViews

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

# Forum
RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

# MVC
RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]

# Check MVC result
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404,L]
[/COLOR]

[Lynne]

There is an article over in the articles forum on vbulletin.org that tells you how to set this up on your site.

[ababneh]

There is an article over in the articles forum on vbulletin.org that tells you how to set this up on your site.

I believe you referring to shorter profile url article

and What is described there is to use the code

[LEFT][COLOR=#000000]RewriteEngine on
[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ member.php?username=$1 [L][/COLOR][/LEFT]

My current .htacess file

RewriteEngine on

# If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory.
# RewriteBase /forum/


# If you are having problems with the rewrite from content/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off.
# Options -MultiViews


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d


RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]


# Forum
RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d


RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]


# MVC
RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]


# Check MVC result
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404,L]

I replaced the line

RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]

with

[LEFT][COLOR=#000000]RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ member.php?username=$1 [L][/COLOR][/LEFT]

but it didn't work. I even made my whole .htaccess look like

[COLOR=#000000][LEFT]RewriteEngine on
[/LEFT]
[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][LEFT]RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ member.php?username=$1 [L][/LEFT]
[/COLOR]

and from admincp > friendly url> I selected standard urls, but no luck
It always assigns the link output with a "user id"-username like
http://www.mysitei.com/forum/members/ID-username/

it seems I have to take the ID part from some file or maybe from a portion of the code in .htacess

anyone know how to do it

[Lynne]

I misunderstood. I see now that you actually want to replace all of the links on your site. That article just makes it so the other method works to access the member page. Default vBulletin will add the userid into the link. If you wanted to remove it, that would require custom coding.