When any of my users have a dot in their username, their profile URL doesn't work and I get this error:



It seems like it is bypassing the Apache rewrite rule and is being interpreted as a file because of the dot and hence not finding the file:

http://www.site.com/account/userprofile/user.name

Interestingly, another user has used an @ in their username but it works as their profile URL resolves to their user ID eg:

http://www.site.com/account/userprofile/123

Also, usernames with spaces seem work fine eg:

http://www.site.com/account/userprofile/user name

Is anyone else getting this problem with dots in the username?

Joomle 1.5.7 (with SEF URLs)
CB 1.2 RC3

Post edited by: beat, at: 2008/10/31 14:46

flyingwombats wrote:


The @ is an illegal character within a url (except for login purposes in front). There fore CB can't SEF it, and in that case uses the user id.

Regarding the '.' I'm not sure where things fail.

The default Joomla and Mambo ht-access files do check for existing files and directories, not for extensions.

Maybe it's Joomla's 1.5 SEF which doesn't like a '.' ?

Your best bet is to find the file "router.php" in the com_comprofiler folder, open it and check how the '-' is handled. Maybe something similar has to be done for '.' ?

At least in there you can echo values and find/propose a fix ?

Also can others please confirm that issue ?

Putting this thread on my radar (#78) and subscription list

Thanks Beat!

I think you are right, the '.' either needs handling in Joomls's 1.5 SEF or in router.php.

Here are two examples of profiles that demonstrate the problem:

http://www.gearch.com/account/userprofile/wombat (works fine)

http://www.gearch.com/account/userprofile/Connie.x (doesn't work)

Can anyone else replicate this problem?

I can confirm this issue.

I have just registered on a J1.5 CB 1.2 RC3 (SEF on) site with a dot in my username and my userprofile link doesn't work.

OK, moving to identified issues forum.

Thanks for the report and confirmations

This is not a CB bug, but due to following rewriting rule in the dot htaccess file of Joomla 1.5:



We got 2 options to fix:

1) suggest another rule
2) convert the usernames with the '.' in them to something without a '.'....

As 1) will be hassles, we are choosing 2)