Disable Entire Profile - Strange But Needed

[noj75]

Hi all,

 

I am creating a custom site and (oddly enough) I need to completely disable the profile area of the software.  Anyone know of a way to do this?

 

Ideally I would like all the links to someones profile to redirect to a custom profile page outside of the forum but cant seem to get the .htaccess anywhere near working. Any help out there at all?

Many thanks.

[Detorkville]

Hi

This is how:
Go to AdminCP -> System -> Site features -> application -> system->profiles and disable it. 

[noj75]

Seriously. It's that simple? lol

 

Thank you very much mate, did not spot that at all. 

[Daniel F]

Seriously. It's that simple? lol

 

Thank you very much mate, did not spot that at all. 

​Yes, it's that simple:)

 

You can also click on the lock icon to disable it on a per usergroup basis

[noj75]

Thank you for that. Very handy for my needs. 

[noj75]

Just to add to this, is there a way to change the URL of ALL username links so that they point to a custom profile page?

[noj75]

Anyone please

[opentype]

Try ACP → System → Advanced Configuration

[noj75]

@Ralf H

Yeh, I did look at that but you can't edit below the forum root. i.e:

I can only do: Friendly URL http://yoursite.com/forum/ (My Profile URL HERE)

I want to do: Friendly URL http://yoursite.com/ (My Profile URL HERE)

My forums do not sit in the domain root. They sit in the /forum/ sub-directory.

[Nathan Explosion]

Could that be redirected with htaccess?

[noj75]

Thanks Nathan, I have tried with that method but to no avail, anyone else have any ideas?

[Kevin Carwile]

You can do this with this application from the marketplace:

I've created an example rule for you that will redirect the page when visiting a members profile page. You can import the rule and edit the page redirect action to point to any page of your choice.

 redirect-member-profile-pages.xml

[noj75]

@Kevin Carwile you sir, are an absolute star