GA Top Content Report - Case sensitive URLs

I see numbers for both upper and lower case versions

[mattglet]

In the Top Content report, I'm seeing separate rows for '/Directory1/Page1.ext' and '/directory1/page1.ext'. Is there a way around this, or is this how it goes?

[fredw]

I'm assuming your web server is running under Windows, where directory and file names are not case sensitive. But for most websites, which run apache on unix, those are different urls. So, GA naturally assumes these are two different pages.

[mattglet]

Sorry, don't think that's right. GA doesn't care what webserver you're running your site on. Anything else?

[vincevincevince]

mattglet, fredw is right. Different cases are different files for unix/linux systems. I can have index.html, Index.html and INDEX.html all with different content.

In these days of CMS driven sites which automatically create 'friendly unique' filenames, it is common to find two files which differ in case but not in name; e.g. a second post had exactly the same name but different case.

It sounds like your problem is that you are using a windows server that returns the same content whatever case is given. The answer is to configure your server to only allow a single case and either redirect incorrect cases or reject them; ISAPIrewrite may do the job for an IIS server - I'd post in the IIS forum to get some help.

[mattglet]

Damn, sorry fredw.

Thanks for the info vince. I'll check it out on my end.