Mod_rewrite Question

[joe]

I want to change URLs like http://www.domain.com/Joe-Is-A-Pimp to http://www.domain.com/joe-is-a-pimp

with mod_rewrite. I want to change all uppercase letters to lowercase. I would like to 301 the old to the new.

Thanks. :338:

 

[arz]

If you don't have a large site, try mod_speling
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_speling.html

 

[joe]

This site has 25,000 pages, and over ten thousand uniques a day.

Isn't there just a simple way to do it with regular expressions? I don't understand them, maybe someone could give me some insight.

 

[claudek]

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/5308.htm has some stuff on this - also has the 301 code as part of the mod_rewrite
rewriteMap appears to be what to use as can be seen towards end of post

 

[joe]

^ Thanks.

 

[Stanley]

joe did you get it to work?

 

[joe]

Nope. Is there another way to do it without going into the httpd.conf?

 

[Stanley]

Nope. Is there another way to do it without going into the httpd.conf?

as far as mod_rewrite is concerned you can have everything in an .htaccess file

test this line out: RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower
and this one: RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{HTTP_HOST}|NONE} ^(.+)$

dont forget to enable it first: RewriteEngine on

 

[joe]

I get an Internal Server Error.

 

[claudek]

May be time to ask the uber geeks at http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=34 - they lurk there waiting for questions such as yours.

 

[Stanley]

yeah sitepoint has a few people that are pretty familiar with mod_rewrite

I'll try to play around with the htaccess file tomorrow and see if I can get it to work
call me a geek but I always enjoyed tinkering with apache