User gets redirected to wrong profile page

Hi everybody, I allow my users to have non-standard characters in their username. I have 2 users on my forum with similar names one is Blackout_10 and the other is Blackout* when Blackout* goes to his profile page it automatically redirects him to blackout_10. Am using the vBSEO 3.2.0 and vB 3.7.2 PL1

Exact post from user:

Originally Posted by Blackout*

When i go to my public profile, or even when others go to my profile, i have a problem with it switching to Blackout_10's profile. It displays completley different information and specs as to what i have and do and where i live. It's not a major issue just a pet peeve sort of thing. So if any admins could solve this problem for me that would be greatly appreciated!

BTW the url turns into members/blackout-.html for both users.

One solution to this problem is to include user ID's in the member profile URLs.

Current Setup : /members/username.html

Suggested : /members/userid-username.html

Thanks, but is that the only fix? I've had the same setup since 3.7 came out so it may affect other users (links etc)

Originally Posted by tigurius

Thanks, but is that the only fix? I've had the same setup since 3.7 came out so it may affect other users (links etc)

No need to worry, the UserID is unique for every user, so their profiles will have unique paths if you add the user_id variable to the rewrite.

I had the same thing and changed it to:

/members/1-wiseone/

and no problems now. Seems you DO have to have the User_Id in there and all is fine...

Thanks guys i'll try it later when I'm not at work.

i have got the same problem too and wondering how can I change this ??

Go into your vbSEO CP, expand the URL rewrite settings and find the member name URL rewrite setting and make SURE you have the USER_ID in the URL. I fixed mine by setting it to:

/members/[user-id]-[username]/

The ID (member number) must be in there or it seems to get confused at times when member names are close, etc...so now mine show:

/members/1-wiseone/

pretty much for ALL settings, if you allow more than [a-z0-9\s] [NC] for character entry, you should include the ID.


for those non regex friendly, that's alpha numeric charcters and space, non-case sensitive.

I did the fix exactly how wiseone said. Custom setting.