Case sensitive URLs
Development and Programming
Hi, I have a problem that the Bing search engine indexes my category pages all in lowercase. The categories generate an upper case C in the url, for example mydomain.com/weblog/cat/C65
Because Bing and some other sites drop the uppercase C to lowercase c when people click the link they don’t go to the page.
I contacted EngineHosting about this and they suggested writing 301 redirects for all categories because all Unix boxes are case sensitive. I’m not convinced this I’m presuming expressionengine.com runs on a unix box with enginehosting and I’ve noticed it is case insensitive.
Is this something I can do in Expression Engine to make URLs case insensitive or is it something that can be done via apache rather than writing a 301 redirect for each of our categories.
Thank You
Hi Andy,
I can’t speak form experience, but you may also be able to accomplish the same result using mod_rewrite in a .htaccess. I’m not sure of the syntax, but you would want a rule that rewrites lowercase “c”s (matching the pattern of your category URLs) to upper-case “C”s.
I’m going to move this over into Development and Programming to see if the Community there can offer any further insight.
Best,
If you are concerned with SEO and urls I would switch over to using category url title instead of the C1 format. This setting in under Admin > Global Channel Preferences > Use Category URL Titles In Links?. There are some things that you will need to think about if you make this change like putting in 301 redirects for the old category urls to the new urls with the category url title in them.