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Mod Rewrite URL to lowercase

by John Romaine
4 replies
Hi guys,
I just wanted to ask how to go about modifying this code so that my URLs are rewritten in lowercase?

At the moment Ive got a mixture of uppercase and lowercase in my URLs and I believe its causing indexation issues.

Heres the code...

Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ articles_view_article.php?permalink=$1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} rss.xml
RewriteRule (.*) rss.php
Thanks
#lowercase #mod #rewrite #url
  • Profile picture of the author codefish
    Try this

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ articles_view_article.php?permalink=${tolower:$1}
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Nope, that didnt work. Whole page errored out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fahmzie
    Take a look at this blog John: Force Lower-Case URLs with mod_rewrite - Chris Abernethy . com

    You have to be able to access httpd.conf (Apache configuration) to be able to do stuff in your .htaccess which most shared server users dont.

    Otherwise you have to do the redirect in php level.

    Hope helps
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  • Profile picture of the author lordspace
    yep. This ${tolower:$1} cannot be used in an .htaccess file.

    You've got to use either the main httpd.conf file or a custom one in conf.d/ folder
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