how to make apache hosted website url requests case insensitive

Question

I have my page1.php file located inside

/public_html/mypages/page1.php

if user requests www.myurl.com/Mypages/Page1.php is returning file not found

how can I ensure that each each request is handled irrespective of the case

I am using godaddy linux server

from their support page

https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/899/how-do-i-use-mod_rewrite

I came to know that it can be done from .htaccess

so I added a .htaccess to /public_html/mypages/

http://www.chrisabernethy.com/force-lower-case-urls-with-mod_rewrite/

here is the content of my .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteMap  lc int:tolower
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [A-Z]
RewriteRule (.*) ${lc:$1} [R=301,L]

after this when I try to access any file www.myurl.com/Mypages/Page1.php its giving internal server error. Please help me resolve this issue .

I also tried adding

<IfModule mod_speling.c>
CheckSpelling On
CheckCaseOnly On
</IfModule>

and now I am not getting internal server error ,but I am getting

"file not found error"

www.myurl.com/mypages/page1.php -->working fine. but www.myurl.com/mypages/Page1.php --> "file not found error"

Answer 1

If you can load the mod_speling module. use this:

RewriteEngine On
AllowOverride All
CheckSpelling on

Otherwise; if you can't (you don't have control of it) force lowercase URLs with mod_rewrite (like you wrote on your question)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteMap  lc int:tolower
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [A-Z]
RewriteRule (.*) ${lc:$1} [R=301,L]

Since your .htaccess was inside a folder and now is in the document root (public_html) try to add your rewrite. Maybe it was just an issue because, it wasn't in the document root.

Answer 2

To solve this issue ,I changed all my file names to lowercase ,and added the following to .htaccess . (as suggested here )

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !([A-Z]+)
RewriteRule .* - [S=27]
RewriteRule ^(.*)A(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1a$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)B(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1b$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)C(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1c$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)D(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1d$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)E(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1e$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)F(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1f$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)G(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1g$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)H(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1h$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)I(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1i$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)J(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1j$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)K(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1k$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)L(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1l$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)M(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1m$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)N(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1n$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)O(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1o$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)P(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1p$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)Q(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1q$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)R(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1r$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)S(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1s$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)T(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1t$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)U(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1u$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)V(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1v$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)W(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1w$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)X(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1x$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)Y(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1y$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)Z(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1z$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Now I don't see any errors and it accepts the requests irrespective of the case.