Possible Bug - [user_name].html

First off, thank you for the great product

I found a strange behaviour in the Member Profile URL Format

I would like it to work like: _site.com/forum/username.html

However when I enter: [user_name].html in the vbseo settings

all my forum category try to redirect to a user profile resulting in a error telling me that the user profile does not exist :P

The users profile behave correctly the problem is just with the forums.

Hope it make sense and it can be fixed

Thank you

Sony

sorry ... my error

Yes, that's an expected behaviour. In short, the most basic reason is because you need a differentiator for "virtual pages".

There's no way the script can know for example /sony.html is a user while /general-discussion.html is a forum.

You need to differentiate these either by using 'virtual' subdomains or by using [id]'s on your urls.

The following combinations will work:

Code:

[user_title]-[user_id].html
[forum_title].html

OR

Code:

[user_title].html
[forum_title]-[forum_id].html

OR

Code:

/'something_here'/[user_title].html
[forum_title].html

OR

Code:

[user_title].html
/'something_here'/[forum_title].html

The last one being undesirable as your actual forums would appear 'deeper' than you user profiles

Juan Muriente,
thank you for the explanation,
I ended up using the

Code:

member-[user_name].html

option.

How would you go about setting up the "virtual" subdomain for users profile?
Can it be done using vbseo ? All i can think is by editing several vbulletin files.....

Thank you

Sony

Originally Posted by Sony

How would you go about setting up the "virtual" subdomain for users profile?
Can it be done using vbseo ? All i can think is by editing several vbulletin files.....

ups.. my bad. I meant "virtual" folder. You can set it by using the vbseo cp and it might look like this:

Code:

members/[user_name].html

ahh, yeah i prefer keeping it like i have, thx anyway

you don't have .html on forum names do you?
i didn't quite get this. I have like forum names as this
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/la...chnology-news/

and member names as http://www.techenclave.com/forums/me...ertpacino.html

now members is a virtual directory (Btw i guess that eliminates the possibility of having a directory by name of members in future)

But forum names don't have .html ending. So how will there be conflict? There may be conflict when the names match for any of these...(thats known issue and can be avoided i guess)


EDIT:
ahh forget it. Didn't see that there was an option for [forum_title].html