As you suggested, I was able to modify get_user_profile_link() function in template-functions.php to prevent the redirection. Mod_rewrite will now rewrite to the profile page properly, without redirecting it.

But now, it shows I'm no longer logged in when I'm on a rewritten page, even though I am. When I try to log in. It just reloads the page.

Here's the mod in_user_profile_link():

function get_user_profile_link( $id = 0, $page = 1 ) {
	$user = bb_get_user( bb_get_user_id( $id ) );
	$rewrite = bb_get_option( 'mod_rewrite' );
	if ( $rewrite ) {
		if ( $rewrite === 'slugs' ) {
			$column = 'user_nicename';
		} else {
			$column = 'ID';
		}
		$r = bb_get_option('uri') . "profile/" . $user->$column . ( 1 < $page ? "/page/$page" : '' );
	} else {
		$r = bb_get_option('uri') . "profile/" . $user->$column . ( 1 < $page ? "/page/$page" : '' );

	}
		$r = str_replace('forums/profile/' . $user->$column , "profile/" . $user->$column, $r);
		return apply_filters( 'get_user_profile_link', $r, $user->ID );

}

My goal is create a short URL such as http://www.example.com/profile/username

http://www.example.com/bbpress/forum/pets-discussions/
http://www.example.com/bbpress/topic/my-sweet-dog

So it would seem that it should be possible to remove the "bbpress" from the URL without interfering with a WordPress installation.

Having said that, I think the solution proposed in the thread I referred to in my last post (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/nicer-slug-url-rewrite-plugin-done) is a much more elegant solution for shortening the bbPress URLs.

If you are running a forum only on a domain, then it would be silly to have it in any sort of directory at all. Otherwise, if you have a website in the root, you have to put bbPress into some sort of directory to prevent confusion.

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/nicer-slug-url-rewrite-plugin-done

In the thread's example. In shows you how to shorten a url like:

http://www.example.com/bbpress/forum/pets-discussions/topic/my-sweet-dog

to:

http://www.example.com/bbpress/pets-discussions/my-sweet-dog

Now, if it could also be shortened to:

http://www.example.com/pets-discussions/my-sweet-dog

That would be even better.

http://www.lifeclever.com/forums/

I have my bbPress directory installed in a directory called "forums" in the root web directory. So the URL to access the forums' home page is:

http://www.example.com/forums

and accessing a forum titled "test forum" is at this URL:

http://www.example.com/forums/forum/test-forum

a topic titled "test topic" is at this URL:

http://www.example.com/forums/topic/test-forum

I implemented your hack, and changed "forum" to "board" in the template-functions.php. I copied the rewrite rules from rewrite-rules.php and placed them into .htaccess file in the root web directory. I also added the two lines of code you suggested in that file:

RewriteRule ^board/(.+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^board/(.+)/?$ /forum.php?id= [L,QSA]

I also tried adding this to the rewrite-rules.php:

RewriteRule ^board/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ <?php bb_option( 'path' ); ?>topic.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^board/([^/]+)/?$ <?php bb_option( 'path' ); ?>topic.php?id= [L,QSA]

When I go to this URL:

http://www.example.com/board/test-forum

I get a 404 error.

However, when I go to this url:

http://www.example.com/forums/forum/test-forum/

It redirects and changes the URL in the address bar in the browser window changes:

http://www.example.com/forums/board/test-forum/

That also brings up a 404 page.

Also, when I go this URL:

http://www.example.com/topic/test-topic

The URL works, but it redirects and changes the URL in the address bar in the browser window changes to:

http://www.example.com/forums/topic/test-forum

I am a little perplexed as to what is going on.

* http://boards.weddingbee.com/board/beehive

If you make the right edits to that core file and an htaccess file, I think the URL can be anything you want...

1. With version 0.8.3, I modified line 363 of /bb-includes/template-functions.php to this:

$link = bb_get_option( 'uri' ) . "board/" . $forum->$column . ( 1 < $page ? "/page/$page" : '' );

2. I created an htaccess file by copying the text from /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php, with two extra lines:

RewriteRule ^board/(.+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /forum.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^board/(.+)/?$ /forum.php?id= [L,QSA]

Just to qualify myself, I rewrote bb_repermalink() a while back to implement slug-based permalinks. It's a tricky beast, and the most complex part is the profile-page case.

But if you must, then you should start by turning debugging on $bb->debug = 1 in config.php should do it. Then when you hit your link you should get some readable debug info at the top of your page.

The critical part of stopping the redirect is on line 1708 of bb-includes/functions.php, you have to make that condition happy to stop the redirect to it's preferred permalink location. That may involve simply modifying the get_user_profile_link() and also the get_profile_tab_link() functions, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

Ok the rewrite worked.

Now just to figure out this repermalink...

Any ideas guys? I'll go look around myself in the meantime ^_^

This assumes that your bbPress install is in a subdirectory of your sites root called "forums".

These rules need to be added before any WordPress rules.

The rewrite will work, but bb_repermalink() will change the URL so that it appears as it normally would.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^users/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forums/profile.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^users/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /forums/profile.php?id=&tab= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^users/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forums/profile.php?id=&tab=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^users/([^/]+)/?$ /forums/profile.php?id= [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

$r = bb_get_option('uri') . "../user/" . $user->$column . ( 1 < $page ? "/page/$page" : '' );
} else {
$r = bb_get_option('uri') . "profile.php?id=$user->ID" . ( 1 < $page ? "&page=$page" : '' );
}

I can access it from /user/username/ one level up (ie.root)

So accessing the link isnt a problem. I just need it to be rewritten

I've been googling about this for a while now and cant seem to find a solution. If I want to do an SEO rewrite with Rewriterule that causes the file to be written up one level...

(the equivalent of browser-side linking "../")

how would I do that? for example, I have

Rewriterule ^profile/ etc etc

What do I do..

"/profile/"?
"../profile/"?
"$/profile/"?

No idea really.. any thoughts on this would be great. I basically want it to go up one level and ignore my forums directory..

so instead of /forums/profile/ its /profile/

No. It's a little more complicated than that. In fact, that part you say needs to be hacked, needs to be left completely alone. Really, you are asking for a world of pain by attempting this. It took me hours to write and test the slugs support. Seriously, just rename your forum directory - it's not worth the hours you will spend.

$forum_id = bb_get_id_from_slug('forum', $permalink);

Is the 'forum' the "forum" I want to remove?
Thanx.

I am trying to remove the "forum" from the forum's url because the normal output its ugly.

So from:
http://www.example.com/forum/forum/forum-name
to get
http://www.example.com/forum/forum-name

I've edited in /bb-includes/template-functions.php the $link from
$link = bb_get_option( 'uri' ) . "forum/" . $forum->$column . ( 1 < $page ? "/page/$page" : '' );
to
$link = bb_get_option( 'uri' ) . $forum->$column . ( 1 < $page ? "/page/$page" : '' );
but I do not manage to make the new link to work for .httaccess. Is there a way to do it?

Thanx.