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Linux.com: Making Apache Case Insensitive Using Samba

Written By
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Marc Perkel
Feb 8, 2001

“Here’s a trick I finally got to work: a way to make Apache
requests case insensitive on Linux/Unix servers and work as well as
Windows NT servers.”

“The problems started when I was migrating from NT to Linux. As
you know, NT is case insensitive, so anything matched. Thus a
request to http://domain.com/INDEX.HTML and
http://domain.com/index.html were the same. However upon moving to
Linux, the request for INDEX.HTML produced a 404 error, not
found.”

“I changed all my files and references to lower case, but that
didn’t solve everything. There were still external Web sites that
linked to me that were in the wrong case. At first I came up with
rules to convert all requests to lower case, but now I have a
better solution.”

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Marc Perkel

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