How to change from mysite/account_name to mysite/profile.php?ID=n

Hi there,

I am new to Boonex. I have just installed Boonex 7.0.6 on a Windows 7 machine. The Web Server is Apache 2.2.

Once I log into Boonex, on the inex.php page there is a member section. For each member, the URL behind it is <mysite>/<account_name>, but there is no such a folder under <mysite> for any member, and thus it fails every time.  To view a member's profile is a basic feature but now I'm stuck.

My question is whether there is a way to configure Dolphin not to use a folder but simply to go with profile.php?ID=n method. If I manually type in the URL, it works. But the URL <mysite>/<account_name is used by Dolphin in many places, so it should not be done manually.

Thanks in advance.

You can disable permalinks from Administration > Settings > Permalinks.

Thanks, Nathan. It works!

I have figured out why the permanent links did not work early. It was due to the fact  the Apache AllowOverride was turned off. Once it was turned on, the rewrite directives in .htaccess took effect and the permanent links now are working.

However, ,htaccess is bad for performance. Is there any plan to put all directives in all configuration file?

Thanks.

If you have access to the httpd.conf file (or any one of the other configuration files), you should be able to add the rewrite rules there, but there shouldn't be much of a performance loss from using a .htaccess file (and not everyone has access to their web server's configuration file).

The bad performance can be because of the problems(redirection etc) in the rules written in the .htaccess

This can happen if you have added custom rules to it.