Case Sensitive URLs not working

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jkresge Reply #1, 15 years, 1 month ago

Converted my site to Revolution & love it. 1 problem left to solve.

www.example.com/learn.html is not the same as www.example.com/LEARN.com

The url has to be an exact match (its case sensitive). In my .htaccess I have the following:

# Friendly URLs Part
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
php_value memory_limit 64M
# Force all pages to go to www.example.com for SEO
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC] 
# Additional Settings Follow
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
BrowserMatch "MSIE" brokenvary=1
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/4.[0-9]{2}" brokenvary=1
BrowserMatch "Opera" !brokenvary
SetEnvIf brokenvary 1 force-no-vary

Adding the "NC" does not work. My setting for FURL Lowercase Aliases is "no" - I think this means aliases are not case sensitive.

The issue is that I have links for partners that have different capitalizations of urls (ex. /page1.html or /Page1.html) and the wrong one is sent to my default error page.

Any ideas? Thank you in advance for taking the time to help!

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jkresge Reply #2, 15 years, 1 month ago

To be clear, I need the urls to be case insensitive.

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jgulledge19 Reply #3, 15 years, 1 month ago

I just wrote a plugin for this like 5 minutes ago.

Create a new plugin, name it(I named it: CaseInsensitiveURI) and then paste the following code in:

<?php
// set OnHandleRequest 
if ($modx->event->name == 'OnHandleRequest') {
    $rAlias = $modx->getOption('request_param_alias', null, 'q');
    if ( isset ($_REQUEST[$rAlias]) ) {
      $_REQUEST[$rAlias] = strtolower($_REQUEST[$rAlias]);
    }
}
?>
See docs for more info: http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Plugins.

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jgulledge19 Reply #4, 15 years, 1 month ago

Also note that if you use the Freeze URI option it must be lowercase!

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jkresge Reply #5, 15 years, 1 month ago

Yahtzee!

That worked, thank you! For any others who try this make sure you have the OnHandleRequest check box clicked under system events.

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One more thing.

How can we make .../page1 the same as .../page1.html ?

I tried Content types & erasing the .html extension - this doesn’t solve the problem though. When I removed the .html extension every .html page was simply the name (example: /page1 ) - however if we type in /page1.html we are again taken to the error page as if it doesn’t exist.

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opengeek Reply #6, 15 years, 1 month ago

FWIW, you might consider doing this on the OnPageNotFound event to supplement instead of potentially overriding/conflicting with the default MODX routing behavior which is performed after the OnHandleRequest event.

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jgulledge19 Reply #7, 15 years, 1 month ago

Modify the plugin to have this code:

<?php
if ($modx->event->name == 'OnHandleRequest') {
    $rAlias = $modx->getOption('request_param_alias', null, 'q');
    if ( isset ($_REQUEST[$rAlias]) ) {
      $_REQUEST[$rAlias] = strtolower($_REQUEST[$rAlias]);
    }
    // allows page and page.html
    if ( !isset($modx->aliasMap[$_REQUEST[$rAlias]]) && strpos($_REQUEST[$rAlias],'.html') === false ) {
        // add the .html
        $_REQUEST[$rAlias] .= '.html';
    }
}
?>

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jkresge Reply #8, 15 years, 1 month ago

Thanks! That worked. no longer have to worry about /page.html or just /page

I tired only selecting OnPageNotFound however that didn’t work.

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jkresge Reply #9, 15 years, 1 month ago

Noticed that with this code my home page will not work.

www.example.com shows my default error page. Other than that it works. It this an easy fix?

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jgulledge19 Reply #10, 15 years, 1 month ago

Try this:

<?php
// set OnHandleRequest 
if ($modx->event->name == 'OnHandleRequest') {
    $rAlias = $modx->getOption('request_param_alias', null, 'q');
    if ( isset ($_REQUEST[$rAlias]) ) {
      $_REQUEST[$rAlias] = strtolower($_REQUEST[$rAlias]);
    }
    // allows page and page.html
    if ( !isset($modx->aliasMap[$_REQUEST[$rAlias]]) && strpos($_REQUEST[$rAlias],'.html') === false && !empty($_REQUEST[$rAlias]) ) {
        // add the .html
        $_REQUEST[$rAlias] .= '.html';
    }
}
?>

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