Re: [cobalt-users] How to get case-insensitivity for web files?

[Paul Schreiber <cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- David Thacker <Cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd like web file requests on my RAQ sites to be case insensitive, so a
> person could request www.site.com/ThisFile.html as well as
> www.site.com/thisfile.html
> and get the same file without any trouble.
> 
> I'm new to the RAQ, and new to Linux and Apache as well.  In my previous
> web server environment (PowerWeb for OS/2), there was simply a server
> setting to
> enable or disable case sensitivity, which I preferred to have disabled.  Is
> there an equivalent setting on the RAQ somewhere?

If you take a look at the apache mod_speling (not a typo!) module, you can
configure your server to do that:
  http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_speling.html

You have to su to root, edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, add a line
  CheckSpelling On

and then restart apache.

Paul

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