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Date: 28 Aug 2000 21:31:50 -0000
From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com>
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Subject: Bad grammar
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>Number:         6478
>Category:       documentation
>Synopsis:       Bad grammar
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 28 14:40:04 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Sat Sep 09 22:08:21 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Sat Sep 09 22:08:21 PDT 2000
>Originator:     pepper@reppep.com
>Release:        website
>Organization:
>Environment:
http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#rewrite-nocase
>Description:
You can't! The reason is: First, case translations for arbitrary length URLs cannot be done via regex patterns and corresponding substitutions. One need a per-character pattern like sed/Perl tr|..|..| feature. Second, just making URLs always upper or lower case will not resolve the complete problem of case-INSENSITIVE URLs, because actually the URLs had to be rewritten to the correct case-variant residing on the filesystem because in later processing Apache needs to access the file. And Unix filesystem is always case-SENSITIVE. 

But there is a module named mod_speling.c (yes, it is named this way!) out there on the net. Try this one. 
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
You can't. The reasons are: first, that, case translations for arbitrary length URLs cannot be done via regex patterns and corresponding substitutions. One needs a per-character pattern like sed's or Perl's tr|..|..| feature. Second, just making URLs always upper or lower case does not solve the whole problem of case-INSENSITIVE URLs, because URLs actually have to be rewritten to the correct case for the file for Apache's access. And Unix filesystems are case-SENSITIVE. 

But there is a module named mod_speling.c (yes, it is named this way!) out there on the net. Try it out if you really need case-mangling.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: fanf
State-Changed-When: Sat Sep  9 22:08:21 PDT 2000
State-Changed-Why:
fixed, thanks
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