On Thursday 20 October 2005 08:33, dogbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi All, > > I run apache 2.0.5x, and was wondering if there is a way to make URL's > (after the domain portion) case insensitive in apache (all URL's), for > example: > > www.foobar.com/JUNKFOOD.htm (client browser) > > would be processed by httpd as: > > www.foobar.com/junkfood.htm (server side) > > In reading the apache FAQ in 1.3, it says the following: > > You can't! The reasons are: first, that, case translations for arbitrary > length URLs cannot be done via regex patterns and corresponding > substitutions. One needs a per-character pattern like the sed/Perl > tr|..|..| feature. Second, just making URLs always upper or lower case does > not solve the whole problem of case-INSENSITIVE URLs, because URLs actually > have to be rewritten to the correct case-variant for the file residing on > the filesystem in order to allow Apache to access the file. And the Unix > filesystem is always case-SENSITIVE. > > But there is a module named mod_speling.c in the Apache distribution. Try > this module to help correct people who use mis-cased URLs. > > Barring this, can mod_speling be set to not provide a list of files that > are a 'close match' providing that the exact match is not found? What about creating a 404 cgi error document that will present the user with a message saying "Did you mean www.foobar.com/junkfood.htm" That way, they will find the file, and be reminded about the spelling for the next time. j----- k----- -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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