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URL's are case sensitive?

by tony69
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Guys I have one query is - URL's are case sensitive? Means upper and lower case in url can arise duplicate url issue?
for example- www.abc.com/Xyz/ and www.abc.com/xyz/ will be considered as two different URL?
or
If sites url get open from both url www.abc.com/HOME/ and www.abc.com/home/ and if yes then share solution to resolve this issue.
#case #sensitive #url’s
  • Profile picture of the author bhushan@rancor
    Originally Posted by tony69 View Post

    Guys I have one query is - URL's are case sensitive? Means upper and lower case in url can arise duplicate url issue?
    for example- www.abc.com/Xyz/ and www.abc.com/xyz/ will be considered as two different URL?
    or
    If sites url get open from both url www.abc.com/HOME/ and www.abc.com/home/ and if yes then share solution to resolve this issue.
    I think both urls are same and won't create duplicate url.
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  • Profile picture of the author morriswilson58
    Yes urls are case sensitive. Before writing urls need to care .
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  • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
    To put it simple: domain names aren't case sensitive, but some URLs are. There's a lengthy article that explains it in detail here: Are URLs Case Sensitive?
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    Usually URLs are not cases sensitive in terms of SE but it can be based on your server settings. e.g while URL rewriting if you didn't use the proper instructions/filters (in .htaccess) then the /HOME/ or /home/ can behave differently.
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    • Profile picture of the author SEOvet
      They can be. I've recently had to fix an ASP.net site that had multiple variants of the the same URL being indexed and penalized for duplicate content. You should 301 redirect the duplicates to the lowercase version of the URL until you fix the issue on your server.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlphaWarrior
    From my experience, the domain name part of the url is not case sensitive, but the file name portion is case sensitive.

    www . domain.com is the same as
    www. DOMAIN.com
    however,
    www. domain.com/file-name.html is different from
    www. domain.com/File-Name.html

    At least, that is what I found.
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