consolidating my top content pages

[tonynoriega]

ok, top content...

i am seeing:

/dental/index.asp
/Dental/index.asp

anyway to configure analytics to consolidate both into one?

is there a filter i can apply for this?

[coopster]

It wasn't the .asp that tipped me off, rather the case-sensitive analysis you summarized. When it comes to file names and resources, Windows fails in this aspect and those paths are two very different resources to most computer operating systems, except one (Win). And they are two very different resources to search engine crawlers as well.

Rather than address the analytics (after the resource has been requested), you need to address the "duplicate content" resource issue.

[tonynoriega]

i have done mod rewrites using a PHP server and the .htaccess file in previouisly...

my company now uses W3k3 servers... what file do i need to look at to rewrite that URL to only use one?

is that even possible, and if so, will analytics pick up on it?

those arent duplicate directories on our server... it seems like some users just use lowercase, and im guessing in marketing material we use the uppercase, so users type upper case...

[coopster]

Unix is case-sensitive so no worries, a 404 is returned. If you don't like throwing the 404 then you can use mapping to redirect. There is a thread in the Apache Forum Library that discusses how to do so. You can use similar if not the very same mapping in Apache on Windows to fix your case-sensitive issue. I don't run any live Win servers so I cannot truthfully state the possibility but I would like to believe this is indeed possible. I would be surprised otherwise.

However, now that you are on a Win server you are faced with a new issue, case-insensitivity. I'm not familiar with IIS if that is what you are running but I know the topic has been discussed many times here at WebmasterWorld. Just knowing the right words to search for is the issue. I would start with something like uppercase lowercase url IIS [google.com]