BuddyPress – URI's not completely working

INTRODUCTION

I’m having a little trouble with URI Level Access Restrictions.

The problem is I do not always get re-directed to the Membership Options page, and sometimes I get restricted info.

The problem seems to be the slash at the end of the URI assignment.

STEPS TO DUPLICATE

Sample 1: Page Not Found

Go to:
http://storytechnician.com/forum/ (contains ending slash mark)
– Redirection works correctly by sending visitor to membership-options.

Go to:
http://storytechnician.com/forum (contains no ending slash mark)
– Redirection results in Page Not Found error.

Sample 2: s2Member reveals secured information

Re: /members/ URI.

Go to:
http://storytechnician.com/members/
– Redirection works correctly by sending visitor to membership-options.

Go to:
http://storytechnician.com/members
– Reveals a list of members on the site (just me).

THE PROBLEM

I think that it may not always be intuitive for a user to type a trailing slash at the end of a URL if and when the URL is typed. I realize that the average user will not type URL’s but rather click through existing links, but this is a concern.

THE QUESTION:

Is this a configuration error on my end?

What do I need to do to fix this?

MY SETUP

I’m using the default s2Member Pro settings, but have the URI’s configured as follows:

Alternative View Protection:
Protect Alternative Views?
YES to all options.

URIs That Require Level #0 Or Higher:
/groups/
/group-forums/
/activity/
/profile/
/settings/

URIs That Require Level #1 Or Higher:
/members/
/blogs/
/messages/
/friends/
/forums/
/forum/

Plugins Installed:
AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget
Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin (AWPCP)
bbPress
BP Disable Activation
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Types
BuddyPress Google Plus
BuddyPress ScholarPress Courseware
BuddyPress Twitter
Fast Secure Contact Form
Quick Adsense
s2Member® Framework (Pro)
Table of Contents Creator (Deactivated)
Table of Contents Plus (Deactivated)
Web Fiction Table of Contents Widget (Deactivated)
WordPress Importer
WP Google+ Connect
WP Show IDs

BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Types
Activity Block Settings:
Filters:
new_member, joined_group, friendship_created

Thanks for your support!

Buck

• This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by  Buck.

Hi Buck.

Since your URI restriction has a trailing slash, the URL without it won’t have a match. Try removing all the trailing slashes and see if that solves your problems:

URIs That Require Level #0 Or Higher:
/groups
/group-forums
/activity
/profile
/settings

URIs That Require Level #1 Or Higher:
/members
/blogs
/messages
/friends
/forums
/forum

Actually, /forum will take care of /forums too. And /group would take care of /groups and /group-forums.

I hope that helps. :)

What an annoyingly simple fix!

That corrected the problem.

Thank you!

Great! I’m glad I could help. :)