I hope I can find some info on the following BIG challenge, as I don't think it is simple, if at all possible.

We have developed a social networking site on DNN and have about 2000 members now. We now wish to make profiles publicly accessible, in the format www.website.com/firstnamelastname, i.e.

www.website.com/bradpitt

This would seem to be the ideal, but if not possible, can anyone make any suggestions on alternatives, i.e.:

www.website.com/bradpitt.aspx

or

www.website.com/profiles/bradpitt ot www.website.com/profiles/bradpitt.aspx ?

Any help would be appreciated, as I have not found info on this kind of requirement in DNN yet

If each user is going to have their own tab/page to put content on, and if you don't need subfolders to show in the URL, then Inventua's HrefExchanger will work great for you.  You can tell it to remove spaces from the tab name or replace spaces with some character.

HTH

--Bruce

Do you mean like this. :)

http://www.yapclub.com/jasonkoskimaki/

I hardcoded Scott's url provider so that this would work along with many other pretty urls. But I didn't know how to do IIS redirects so I created a folder named jasonkoskimaki and a custom default.aspx in it.

However, I also have the rest of my users setup to lookup on userid as

website.com/23211.aspx

I posted some solutions on doing this in this forum awhile ago and from all my customizations my code is too forked now for me to post the changes to add.

Note when doing this you need to be careful as you can mess up your search engine results if you don't rewrite correctly. I don't quite understand how it works but there is Request.URL.tostring and Request.RawURL and other url properties and I think search engines can detect if you are rewriting incorrectly.

Jason

Do you mean like this. :)

http://www.yapclub.com/jasonkoskimaki/

I hardcoded Scott's url provider so that this would work along with many other pretty urls. But I didn't know how to do IIS redirects so I created a folder named jasonkoskimaki and a custom default.aspx in it.

However, I also have the rest of my users setup to lookup on userid as

website.com/23211.aspx

I posted some solutions on doing this in this forum awhile ago and from all my customizations my code is too forked now for me to post the changes to add.

Note when doing this you need to be careful as you can mess up your search engine results if you don't rewrite correctly. I don't quite understand how it works but there is Request.URL.tostring and Request.RawURL and other url properties and I think search engines can detect if you are rewriting incorrectly.

Jason

I am trying to do the exact same thing in DNN social networking site. Has anyone come up with a complete solution for this?

Thanks!!!