oh oh. username profile link conflict

As soon as I install vbseo, members are going crazy thinking someone hacked their account. The problem is if someone have - or _ or any other characters on their username, their profile will link to another member with the same name but no special character.

Now, is there anyway I can change this? I am not trying to use ID for user profile links because I bought this product just so that people would be able to have their name as their profile links.

so for example, -john- profile will be linked to john.

any fix?

I try to search around the forum but juan said the problem is fixed for 2.0 and above and I am using the newest version and the conflict still exist

Problem caused by a ' mark in a members username

that didn't fix people who have - on their user names

even after I put 1 on that option, all other characters are ok but users with - on their names are still being redirected to the same name without the - on it

Yeah, it does seem to strip -'s. I thought that was resolved a while back, but Oleg can comment.

Hi,

please include a [user_id] part into member profile URL format in vbseocp to be absolutely sure there is no conflicts (for instance, "members/[user_id]-[user_name].html".

Is there no way to make the - get converted to the ascii code like other special characters?

Basically, there are two options that affect this:
VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS should be set to 1 in config_vbseo
and "Replace Non-English Characters in URLs" option should be *disabled* in vbseocp (which is not desired sometimes though since it affects ALL URLs).

Hmm. Oh well. I never noticed that the -'s were stripped out of the names, so I need to add the userid to the end now. That will make all the old indexed profile links invalid, right?

Well, it is not stripped, but it is treated like URL parts separator (if "-" is defined in vbseocp).
Yes, with URL format changes old links will not work correctly. This is not required however, because in most cases member profiles with similar names will be distinguished. As for the specified case (with starting and/or trailing "-", which are stripped like URL separator), we can keep it for member profile links when VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS is enabled. That should solve this issue as well.

Well, I'll go ahead and change it to have the ID just to make sure it's covered and get my new sitemaps generated.

Thanks

Hi sorry fort that, but I had the same Problem. Right now I changed members/[user_name].html to members/[user_name]-[user_id].html

Now the Problem is gone, but their are some member-sites in google with the old Format. Is their a way to fix that this links will work?

Hi,

since old member profile URL format had no user_id part in it, it's not possible to create a general rewrite rule for redirection that will work for all old URLs. It is only possible with one rewrite rule per user in .htaccess similar to:
RewriteRule ^members/john-doe\.html$ member.php?u=12
etc.

Well that just defeats the purpose of me using this script then. Unfortunately, I ended up buying 3 and I wish I knew about this conflict before buying 3 because then I will use the free versions on vbulletin.org. This just ruins my plans for my upcoming dating site I will be using one of them on.

Even the username.mysite.com or profiles.mysite.com/username I was told will work but it doesn’t even work and I can't get any answers to the thread about it. Juan asked me for my ftp info and I gave it to him and still I haven't seen any help.

I am really pissed, just throw over $400 away when I could have used the free versions on vb.org and they actually do the same.

Whatever. Next time put a demo of your software for people to test it instead of promising and telling them something will work when it actually don’t work.

I was told in the presales section that username.mysite.com and also profiles.mysite.com/username will work but after I purchase the script, none of them work.

Feels like an episode of punk

This is ONLY a problem if you allow users to have dashes in their names, and there is another user with the same name without the dashes. Otherewise, it will work fine.

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

This is ONLY a problem if you allow users to have dashes in their names, and there is another user with the same name without the dashes. Otherewise, it will work fine.

thats not only my problem. read my previous reply to see my other problem. I was promised that this script will do things in the presale section but after paying for it, codes that were given to me dont even do the things they said it will.