bcrbcr - 12:16 pm on May 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have been working via Webmasterworld pages on getting some of my sites correctly canonicalised - some great advice from jpMorgan, then I picked up a thread on the /index rewrite to start cutting off the enemy at the pass. Best forum around for this stuff.

The following is my current (simple) Mod rewrite, and I am still confused as to why the capitalisation in the domain doesn't get forced to lower case.

I assumed that www.EXAMPLE.COM would be forced to www.example.com - doesn't seem to work that way.

Rule 1 below deals with the index.htm(l) problem nicely, Rule 2 with the www. vs. non-www very well, and in combination nthey also work.

But I still have capitalisation issues - I don't mean inside the site or with indiviudal URls - different issue. I mean the capitalisation of the domain name and tld

I have read and think I understand the capitalisation discussion on webmasterworld, so I don't think that is the issue. I have also messed with adding [nc] to different lines and still can't make headway.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html?\ HTTP/ [nc]
rewriteRule ^index\.html?$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]
rewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www\.example\.com$
rewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Any ideas from the experts? Have I misunderstood how far you can go here?

Thanks