We currently have our forums installed in a subfolder called forums, and for most URL rewriting we are happy with forums being included in the URL, so we do not use the option to remove this. However, is it possible to just do this for member profiles? So, instead of:

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http://www.mydomain/forums/member/redactuk/

show

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http://www.mydomain/member/redactuk/

but still include the /forums/ base for everything else.

Thanks

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*Bump*

Guys, I appreciate you are busy, and you are not obliged to support or help anyone, but I really would appreciate some help with this one.

Thanks

*bump*

still no one able to help me with this?

If you don't use virtual folders, I don't see an easy way of eliminating the forum root prefix from the URL as a special case for members only. I looked at phpbb_seo_class.php:

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   function set_user_url( $username, $user_id = 0 ) {
      if (empty($this->seo_url['user'][$user_id])) {
         $username = strip_tags($username);
         $this->seo_url['username'][$username] = $user_id;
         if ( $this->seo_opt['profile_inj'] ) {
            if ( $this->seo_opt['profile_noids'] ) {
               $this->seo_url['user'][$user_id] = $this->seo_static['user'] . '/' . $this->seo_url_encode($username);
            } else {
               $this->seo_url['user'][$user_id] = $this->format_url($username,  $this->seo_delim['user']) . $this->seo_delim['user'] . $user_id;
            }
         } else {
            $this->seo_url['user'][$user_id] = $this->seo_static['user'] . $user_id;
         }
      }
   }

It only generates the suffix (member/username_x), not the whole URL (http://www.mysite.com/forums/member/username_x. It's a major hack, but you could try fooling URL generation by adding ".." to the suffix:

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   var   $seo_static = array( 'forum' => 'forum', 'topic' => 'topic', 'post' => 'post', 'user' => 'member', 'group' => 'group', 'index' => '', 'global_announce' => 'announces', 'leaders' => 'the-team', 'atopic' => 'active-topics', 'utopic' => 'unanswered', 'npost' => 'newposts', 'urpost' => 'unreadposts', 'pagination' => 'page', 'gz_ext' => '.gz' );

Becomes:

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   var   $seo_static = array( 'forum' => 'forum', 'topic' => 'topic', 'post' => 'post', 'user' => '../member', 'group' => 'group', 'index' => '', 'global_announce' => 'announces', 'leaders' => 'the-team', 'atopic' => 'active-topics', 'utopic' => 'unanswered', 'npost' => 'newposts', 'urpost' => 'unreadposts', 'pagination' => 'page', 'gz_ext' => '.gz' );

If this works (ha!), you'd have to update the .htaccess to rewrite /members/* to /forums/members/*.

Thank you for reply, I'll give that a go.

Finally got around to trying to implement this. While the change about does work for the URL, I'm really stuck as to what change to make in htaccess to ensure clicking the link still goes to the profile. Unfortunately I'm no expert on rewrites. I was assuming it was simply a case of:

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RewriteRule ^forums/member/([^/]+)/?$ /forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&un=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

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RewriteRule ^member/([^/]+)/?$ /forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&un=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

But that doesn't work. Any pointers much appreciated