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**Boxerman** · 05-06-2008, 09:46 PM

hi i just installed the script and when i login with the vshare details provided at the end of the installion it forwards me to a folder "vshare" which there isnt any? ive installed on the root of public_html.... can anyone help?

**buyscripts** · 05-07-2008, 04:36 AM

If you are login to username vshare it forwards to user profile page like this yoursite.com/vshare.(yoursite.com/username)

**grynmoors** · 05-07-2008, 08:04 AM

Wow, get out of my head! I was just coming to the forums to post a question about a related issue....

Anytime you have a folder inside the vshare site, it will say "no such user" because vshare thinks that the directory you're trying to access is a user profile and unless you type in "index.php" or "index.html", you won't see the contents of that directory.

Is there a fix for that like maybe a redirect in .htaccess or something?

Let's say I want to have file sharing at http://myvsharesite.com and the directory is called "sharing" so if you typed in http://myvsharesite.com/sharing it will tell you "no such user"...the only way to get to the pages inside that directory is to type in the page and extension, like http://myvsharesite.com/sharing/index.php

**Boxerman** · 05-08-2008, 09:03 AM

its still happening... is there anything i need to do in the php.ini???

ive signed up with different username and it redirects to the username as a folder... normally i think that php.ini but not 100 percent.. short tags or anything?

thanks

**grynmoors** · 05-08-2008, 09:15 AM

Yes, the vShare script works so that a username goes to a "folder" which is a problem if you have any subfolders in your vShare root. This can't be avoided with the way vShare works...but I would think there's a work-around, I just don't know what it is.

There is nothing, to my knowledge, that you can do in php.ini.

**Boxerman** · 05-08-2008, 09:01 PM

can anyone tell me how to fix please?

**Boxerman** · 05-10-2008, 10:25 AM

Bump?

**grynmoors** · 05-10-2008, 10:35 AM

When you log in, what it does is directs you to your profile page. That's what you're seeing. Your profile page. If you are logging in as "vshare" then you'll be redirected to vshare's profile page. If you log in as "joe blow" then you'll be taken to "joe blow's" profile page.

As far as anybody knows, there is no way to redirect after login to any other page. This has been discussed in the templates modification forum several times. As far as I know, this is hard coded somewhere and it's been requested in the "features request" forum to give us the option to have it go to the same page that a person gets when they click the link in the welcome email or any other page other than the profile page. I, myself, would like to be directed to the welcome page and not my profile, but that's how it works right now.

**Boxerman** · 05-10-2008, 11:19 AM

thats the problem it cant find the profile...

so when before, when u logged in it took you to your profile page... now it doesnt, where the profile page would be www.domain.com/joeblow it cant find that... so its not going to the profile page

**grynmoors** · 05-10-2008, 10:54 PM

The directory is "virtual", it doesn't really exist. It is handled by .htaccess RewriteRule. I am doing a lot of googling about this...

I am desperate to find a way to redirect people after login to somewhere other than their profile page, and so far I've come up with this:

Code:

RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)?/?$ invite_friends.php?username=$1 [L,QSA]

This takes a person to the "invite friends" page after login...the only problem is that now a person can't access their profile page, so I'm doing some digging still, has to do with conditions I think...I'm a total .htaccess n00b. If there's any .htaccess guru's out there, we'd be ever so grateful for any assistance.

In the meantime, since this is not an "installation" issue, I'm going to continue the thread in the TEMPLATE MODIFICATIONS forum. See you there!