Removing case sensitivity in urls?

chriswheat

Hello,

I am running PHP on Appache so if you lets say index.php is saved in lowercase and some one types in INDEX.PHP they get the error 404 page.

How do I (or is it possible) to at the begining of the 404 page check to see if the target file is in upper case and if so automaticly take the UPPER CASE and change it to lower case and redirect to the lowercase file via header location; blablalb

Thanks
Chris

AstroTeg

Actually, this can be done with .htaccess, which would be a lot better and you don't have to write any code. Check the web for this as I don't have the details. O'Rielly's has a book called Apache Cookbook which describes doing this...

chriswheat

Thanks for the tip.. I will be looking into it, .htaccess sounds more appealing to me!

Chris

chriswheat

Hello,

I am trying to turn of case sinsitivity via .htaccess as posted here
http://www.webhoster.ca/webhosting/serverinfo.asp

Yet when the server grabs the .htaccess file with it appears to try and use:
CaseInsensitive
instead of the command
CaseInsensitive On

This of course causes an error 500 message.

Any ideas? Here is a copy of the server log

[Fri Jan 16 17:19:10 2004] [alert] [client 206.163.0.151] /home/myaccount/public_html/.htaccess: Invalid command 'CaseInsensitive', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration.

Many thanks
Chris

chriswheat

anyone?