By calefilm on

Sorry. I realize this question has probably been asked a million times over but I can't find an answer to this specific issue as of recently --- Cannot get "localhost/uid" to work

I would like my users to see their profile they created (as a view) upon going to mysite.com/uid

example: mysite.com/66

(SALLY IS user #66, or i can use the argument User: Name)

In Views i create my fields, filters, etc

Argument: User:UID

page path: uid%

I click save, preview and it works... I click display page and enter 66 and I can see sally's profile.

when i enter localsite/66 into the address bar it doesn't work.. "PAGE NOT FOUND" and I know it doesn't have anything to do with permissions because I'm actually using the Admin account "1"

I can of course change to path to myprofile/sally using Argument: Username but I'd like someone to just type in mysite.com/username instead of mysite.com/myprofile/username

Question: Is my page path wrong? why can i preview it in Views but not see it on my site? Or is this a back-end job? If so, can you reference a thread that I can view...

Thank you.

Edited by WorldFallz - moved to appropriate forum.

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WorldFallz commented

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but the proper path for a user profile is http://example.com/user/uid not http://example.com/uid and afaik, views doesn't allow for creating path with an argument at the top level url.

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calefilm commented

Like how Myspace does it: I'm Sally and want to view my profile at mysite.com/sally

example: myspace.com/username

I see, so if I cannot create a path with an argument at the top level how do I accomplish this task.. or is it impossible with drupal? (and not to forget, I can actually preview this view!! I don't know why... but I'm not going to argue that it doesn't work in views...)

Just trying to find out how i'd go about getting a user to mysite.com/username.

Thanks for your help.

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WorldFallz commented

From merlin himself: http://drupal.org/node/464726#comment-1597888 (also suggests a possible workaround).

EDIT:
Another option might be to handle it with some apache rewrite fu.

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calefilm commented

at this time, I'm not familiar enough with coding languages.. good help though!

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SamSound commented

cant you just use the normal user profile? like drupal/user/uid. You can override the profile page and put your view in the page. Then use pathauto and just put [user-raw], as the user account alias.

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calefilm commented

For the last couple hours I've been trying to grapple with your suggestion. I like it--just don't know exactly how to apply it----cuz ima leRnIN stillll

Update: I realized that when my users create My Account they are automatically already at: mysite.com/username -- instead, I would like them to be at mysite.com/myaccount/username . . . and when they click on their Company Profile Nodes... they go to: mysite.com/username

What did you mean i can override the profile page and put my view in the page? I tried doing that with a View that I created called Company Profile with an Argument (User: Name) and I add a path: (user/%)

Then I can see my view when i go to: site.com/user/company

But, of course MY ACCOUNT disappears.

Then I go to URL Aliases, click user path settings and find "Pattern for user account page paths:" change from: user/[user-raw] to: [user-raw]

Now when i go to site.com/username I don't see the Company Profile Node view (Which i want to see!) but instead I see the old MY ACCOUNT page without any content (just the header: "View", "Edit", "Track")

So I'm not getting it....

Any changes I'm making to the autopath settings under automated alias settings don't seem to be working.... If instead when someone goes to "MY ACCOUNT", I would prefer their "MY ACCOUNT" url to be site.com/myaccount/username

I go to URL Aliases, click user path settings and find "Pattern for user account page paths:" change from: user/[user-raw] to: user/myaccount/[user-raw]

And nothing happens. I click "MY ACCOUNT" and the url is still: site.com/username

So I'm doing a few things wrong--probably in the wrong place, huh..

Thanks for any responses..
Cale