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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Thacker 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?

Apache is case insensitive, so if your site is "www.mysite.com" anyone
can still find it at "www.MySite.Com" or any other variation.

However, Apache simply forwards directory paths and filenames to linux,
which IS case-sensitive.

For this reason "index.html" must be capitalized exactly as the file is
listed in the directory.  The same thing goes for directory names.  If
your complete url is, for example,
"httpd://www.yourdomain.com/directory/file.html" then
"httpd://www.YourDomain.com/directory/file.html" would work, but
"httpd://www.yourdomain.com/Directory/File.html" would NOT.

No way around it, except to not use Linux/Unix.

Jeff
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