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Old 08-27-2007, 05:26 PM
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users with . in their names
users who have . in their names like .ABCD. are unable to upload avatars.

i have a user who's name is .aftershock. and another user who's name is aftershock

then 'aftershock' updates his avatar '.aftershock.'s avatar also gets updated.

it started after i installed vbseo
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Old 08-27-2007, 05:48 PM
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Hi,

To differentiate between the two users, do either of the following.

1. Manually set VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS=1 options in the config_vbseo.php file to include "special" characters in URLs

2. OR add [user_id] part to your member profile URL format (to have both username and userid in the link) - in this case you will have clean profile URLs that will work with ANY username.
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Old 08-27-2007, 08:24 PM
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already have it set to /user-id.html for months. i guess i'll try option # 1 too.
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Hi Zalak,

I should have read your question better.

Try adding the userid to the Avatar rewrite.
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Try adding the userid to the Avatar rewrite.
and how does one do that? thanks...
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In vbseocp.php, click "URL Rewrite Settings", then click the + next to Advanced Settings, then find "Custom Avatar Image URLs", then either choose the [userid].gif setting or define your own.
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Hi,

To differentiate between the two users, do either of the following.

1. Manually set VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS=1 options in the config_vbseo.php file to include "special" characters in URLs
I have done this because I had members with special characters, and stripping caused issues with going to wrong profile page.

Not using IDs. member-name.html only.

When I change this using the config option above, it changes folks that had a space in their name from User-Name.html to User+Name.html

If you type User-Name.html though, it still comes up. Since those are in engines already, Im guessing we would get hit with duplicate content issues. Is there a way to redirect 301 to the new style one, or do we just have to deal with it.

Thanks!
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It's recommended to include user_id in member profile URLs in case if there similar usernames on the forum.
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Is there a way to redirect 301 to the new style one, or do we just have to deal with it.
It would be required to setup multiple rewrite rule (one for every user you want to redirect) to achieve that.
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Old 12-03-2008, 10:42 AM
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Hi,

To differentiate between the two users, do either of the following.

1. Manually set VBSEO_REWRITE_MEMBER_MORECHARS=1 options in the config_vbseo.php file to include "special" characters in URLs

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Thankyou this fixed a problem I had
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