.htaccess issues

always www. & upper / lower case issue

[matimer]

I always want all pages to have a default of www. at the beginning

and I don't want lowercase/uppercase to be an issue (unix server)

Thanks

[war59312]

I use this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[jdMorgan]

The uppercase/lowercase issue can be handled several ways.

If you httpd.conf access, you can use mod_rewrite's RewriteMap to call the system tolower or tolower functions to force all-uppercase or all-lowercase URLs.

You can use mod_speling to correct one or a few incorrect-case letters.

You can use content-negotiation (mod_negotiation) to let Apache pick the "best match" for the requested URL.

See the Apache module documentation [httpd.apache.org].

Jim