Bart Dorlandt - BAMweb.nl

A friend of mine (Jasper who build this great site www.werkenopdeantillen.info) point me to this site. This site describes how to setup your joomla environment with community builder so you can type http://www.domain.tld/username. It will forward you to the actual user page.

I modified his way just a bit so it does just what I want. This is how to do it.

First you have to make sure your virtualhosts (if you use this) allows your .htaccess to be read and used. I use OpenBSD with apache and the default configuration says:

AllowOverride None

So what I need to do was to create the following to make sure my .htaccess in my subdirectory was read and used. Create the following for your subdirectory inside your virtualhost statement: 

<Directory /var/www/htdocs/www.domain.tld>
                AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Now for the next part we are going to edit the .htaccess file. If you haven't used this before, you can find it as htaccess.txt in the root of your joomla directory. Here is the output of my .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule http://www.capoeirahilversum.nl/%1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user='$1' [L]