Question

I’m changing my app to allow vanity user url:

http://domain.com/username

I am trying to find out what are the common names that should be prevented from the user to register, such as: phpmyadmin, password, username, about, contact, support, etc.

Best if there is a list available, but I haven’t been able to find one.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I think you could allow any name as long as it doesn’t conflict with another page on your site. You may want to consider the following just to prevent such conflicts:

http://domain.com/user/username

That way you could still use

http://domain.com/about
http://domain.com/contact

for your own URLs.