Permalinks for profiles not working

Hi there I answered this on the forums
http://tinyurl.com/yw6bj2

Hi mrpowless, I did exactly you told there (copied below) but it did not worked for me. Permalinks are still not working and "500 Internal Server Error" is occuring.

Can you please suggest me what may wrong?

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mrpowless wrote
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I'd try to uncomment:

# RewriteRule ^profile\.php rewrite_name.php [L]

so it looks like:

RewriteRule ^profile\.php rewrite_name.php [L]

from existing .htaccess an make it look for rewrite_name.php



then load below see more up in a file and save as type "all" name it rewrite_name.php

edit:goes inroot ty for pointing that out



<?php
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@list($url, $vars) = explode('?', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
if( $url == '/' )
{
require_once('index.php');
exit;
}


$urlArr = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$rewriteNick = (strlen(trim($urlArr[count($urlArr) - 1])) ? $urlArr[count($urlArr) - 1] : $urlArr[count($urlArr) - 2]);
if ( !get_magic_quotes_gpc() )
{
$rewriteNick = addslashes($rewriteNick);
}

$flag = 0;
$tmp = $rewriteNick;

if (preg_match("/^rewrite_name\.php\?ID=(\d+)/",$rewriteNick,$m))
{
$flag = 1;
$rewriteNick = " `ID` = '" . (int)($m[1]) . "'";
}
elseif (preg_match("/^profile\.php\?ID=(\d+)/",$rewriteNick,$m))
{
$flag = 2;
$rewriteNick = " `ID` = '" . (int)($m[1]) . "'";
}
elseif (ereg("([a-z0-9]+.php)",$rewriteNick,$m)) {
Header( "Location: {$rewriteNick}" );
exit;
}
else
{
$rewriteNick = " `NickName` = '$rewriteNick'";
}

require_once( "inc/header.inc.php" );
require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_INC .'db.inc.php' );

$sRequest = "SELECT `ID`,`NickName` FROM `Profiles` WHERE {$rewriteNick}";
$profArr = db_arr( $sRequest );

if ($profArr)
{
$_REQUEST['ID'] = $profArr['ID'];
if( $flag )
{
header("Location: " . $site['url'] . $profArr['NickName']);
}
require_once( BX_DIRECTORY_PATH_ROOT. 'profile.php' );
exit();
}
else
{
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
header("Status: 404 Not Found");
echo "Page not found $tmp";
}

?>

It worked fine for me after I uploaded mrpowless' suggestions. Thanks. I hope these suggestions are included in the next Dolphin release.

Smokky - I would try to chmod the file to 644, make sure it is in the root folder where Dolphin is. Make sure you have mod rewrite engine on in the base of your server.

FYI. I use 1and1 shared hosting and this did not work until I added RewriteBase / to .htaccess which looks like the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^profile\.php rewrite_name.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .+ - [L]
RewriteRule [A-Za-z0-9_-]+ rewrite_name.php [L]
</IfModule>

Use in good health.