Heeyz.
I would like my host to send the visitor to the same file no matter whether they type
/GAMES/index.php
or
/games/index.php

Same for changing the index.php

How is this setting called?



At my local php server it doesn't care about the caption.

Hey,

When i'm browsing and have caps lock accidentally on, no matter what case it goes to the same file!

Look:

http://webmaster-TALK.com
http://webmaSTER-talk.com
http://webmaster-TALK.com
HTTP://WEBMASTER-TALK.COM

Whatever case you type it in, it chages it back down to lower case so it should be fine.

Regards,

Sean

Capitalization doesn't extend to domain names...however, on *nix based webservers, the directories and filenames are case-sensative.

You could use mod_rewrite. However, trying to write rules for every possible situation would take an extensive amount of planning and writing. Other than that, the only other thing I can think of is to switch to a windows based host which is generally more expensive.

Put your real index.php in the directory 'games'.

Create an uppercase GAMES directory and create a file index.php. In that file, put:

<script language="JAVASCRIPT">
location.href="http://www.yoursite.com/games/index.php";
</script>

Anyone visiting uppercase will be immediately redirected to lowercase.

that could work. Bit anoying though

Originally Posted by lajkonik86

that could work. Bit anoying though

Actually, it will work -- I use it frequently. Any solution that works is less annoying than one that doesn't. I don't quite understand why it is "annoying."

Good luck with your problem.

You could make a custom 404 page and put something like 'Please make sure your URL is all in lower case'. Come to think of it, I think in custom 404 pages you can use scripts to see what people typed in - you might even be able to write a script to redirect them to the correct URL if they typed in uppercase. Not sure how you could do this / if it's even possible in *nix/PHP... I could have a crack at it in Windoze but there would be no need cos it's not case sensitive.

If you use Apache, you could look into mod_speling (Apache 2).

Requests to documents sometimes cannot be served by the core apache server because the request was misspelled or miscapitalized.

Other then that, you would have to use mod_rewrite like cptnwinky said, I think. You can create a map file that is changed easily. You can write a Perl script to act as the map, too, but I can't help there.

I don't quite understand why it is "annoying."

I believe he means that he would have a bunch of extra directories, all with one file in them. If they are numerous, it can get tedious and "annoying".