Help with my sites broken url

SchneiderMan · Nov 5, 2009

So a weird thing is happening, when i do not include the www. before my sites url then it will not take me to my site and it will show as broken..

Like Schneidersstudios.com/site/reviews.html ( does not work)
but Schneiderstudios.com works fine..

And http://www.Schneidersstudios.com/Site/Reviews.html works fine.
And http://www.Schneidersstudios.com/site/reviews.html does not

Edit: i found out that if i do not use capital letters the url will be broken

What is wrong? thanks

angelwatt · Nov 5, 2009

The file system is case sensitive that's all. It's normal behavior. Windows servers don't care about case though.

SchneiderMan · Nov 8, 2009

Is there a way to fix this though?

angelwatt · Nov 8, 2009

SchneiderMan said:
Is there a way to fix this though?

Sure, always make sure your links have the correct case (again, there's not a problem to fix, everything is working as intended). If you're on a Apache web server you can use a .htaccess file to setup a rewrite rule to force everything to lowercase, then make sure all your files are lower case. This means you'll have to change all your files to lower case though so not a great solution for you.

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

Code:

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

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