Hi Beat! Following our short e-mail exchange I'm now posting my question here.
As I said, after successfully implementing the answer you gave in this post:
www.joomlapolis.com/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,38/func,view/id,112180/catid,100/
I now have these URLs, as I wished (while using Joomla core SEF):
www.mysite.com/register
www.mysite.com/forgot-password
This issue of the register/lost details is sorted.
Now, first of all, the question is can the same trick work also for the profile pages.
In other words, when you wrote:
"In Joomla 1.5, you can simply define a menu for the component : Community Builder: register. Then Joomla 1.5's native SEF will use the name of that menu alt name. The menu can be invisible".
Did you mean this is possible only for the registration page, or is it possible also to modify with this the profile pages URLs
so instead of:
www.mysite.com/component/comprofiler/userprofile/john
it would be:
www.mysite.com/userprofile/john
If it is possible, please let me know. But I'm assuming it is not possible.
So if it's not possible, I would like to ask for your help in modifying the CB profile pages URLs created by Joomla core SEF.
In this epic CB forum post:
www.joomlapolis.com/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,38/func,view/id,2517/catid,20/limit,6/limitstart,114/
DjTrail first suggested the following RewriteRule to be added to .htaccess in order to achieve the desired URL:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user='$1' [L]
Everybody seemed to be very pleased with this change and from what I have read it was working well (for those who knew how to implement it correctly).
However, having tried it myself over the weekend, I don't think that it works anymore in Joomla 1.5.14, unless you'd correct me and say that it should still work.
If it can't work anymore, I reckon it should possibly be fairly a minor modification to the above rule to adapt it to 1.5.14.
Unfortunately, I personally don't have the experience needed to spot what change is needed to modify .htaccess Rewrite rules.
These are the SEF URLs that I am trying to acheive:
either:
www.mysite.com/userprofile/john
or:
www.mysite.com/john
(Whichever causes less possible complications, if any might exist).
I'm glad you said that it's possible to do, and I would much appreciate your help with this.
Thank you!
Post edited by: tisdale, at: 2009/09/30 03:21