You could create an event handler on new member creation and create a blank page for them with their first name and the template for that page displays data for currently logged in user.

Regards

Ismail

But how would that provide me with a custom nice URL? Would'n I also be creating a page node, wich would mess up my tree?

/jack-> shows the puiblic profile for Jack
/jill -> show the public profile for Jill

typical solution is ofther a page behind that recives the request via query string through url-rewrite.

/jack would actually be sent to /profile.aspx?id=jack

But what would be the most practical thing here, while not messing things up for Umbraco ?

The page name would be persons name so http://somesite/jack though you would need to mess around it more than one jack best way would be Url rewrite page with query but i would use guid of member as the query string parameter and then in code do new Member(guid) that way if you have more than one jack you dont have issue.

Regards

Ismail

I'm sort of looking for a way to either auto generate unique Nice URLs from the user's name, or allow the user to make up their own (wich would check for collitions).

I guess my question is becoming; how would I create a url-rewrite rule (or similar mechanism, if availale in Umbraco) that grabs the requested url and translate into a query string and sends to a Umbraco page (that would use the same templates and features as all other pages in Umbraco).

Thanks, for the input so far though..

Thank you Sascha, this is pretty much what I was looking for (including the confirmation of a working solution) !

Fantastic, glad I could help out. :)

@Sascha Wolter
I'm having a little bit of difficulty following your example above. I'm trying to do the exact same thing tho.

Currently my members have a page that displays all of their info and the URL looks like this:

http://localhost/home/directory?id=1636

but I would like for them too look like this:

http://localhost/home/directory/John-Doe

where (John-Doe) is the members name (John Doe). I would also like to have a (-) replace any spaces that occur within the name.
Currently I have tried following your example and have used this code:

<add name="memberrewrite"
           redirect="Application"
           virtualUrl="^~/home/directory\?id=(.*)"
           rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
           destinationUrl="~/home/directory/member?name=$1"
           ignoreCase="true" /> 

But that just produces a URL that looks like this:

http://localhost/home/directory/member?name=1636

This URL also directs me to a 404 error page. Im not sure if I have something set up wrong but I have reviewed the UrlRewritingNet20.pdf and my web.config file looks to be all correct. Do you have any suggestions or solutions that might be helpful with this issue? I'm new to UrlRewriting so I may be missing something simple.

Thank you in advance!

Hi FarmFresh,

This will create a rewrite from /home/directory/John-Doe to /home/directory/member?name=John-Doe :

<add name="memberrewrite"
           redirect="Application"
           virtualUrl="^~/home/directory/([^\n]+)"
           rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
           destinationUrl="~/home/directory/member?name=$1"
           ignoreCase="true" /> 

It's then up to you to write a macro to pick up the "name" querystring and retrieve the appropriate member. Hope this makes sense?
This is why it may be more appropriate to keep the member ID somewhere in the URL so you don't end up with the possibility of duplicate names - and subsequently, a bug when you go to a given profile URL.

Best,

Benjamin

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