[nylug-talk] IIS/Windows to Apache/Linux conversion problems (case insensitivity)

[Chandhee Thala]

hello,

We have a site with URLs that looks like this:

    http://example.com/Dir1/File.jpg
    http://example.com/Dir2/File000.jpg
    http://example.com/Dir2/File001.jpg

The problem was that this site was running on IIS, so people referred to
the above URLs like this:

    http://example.com/dir1/file.jpg
    http://example.com/Dir2/file000.jpg
    http://example.com/Dir2/File001.JPG

Which wasn't really a problem because Windows is case-insensitive. I
guess IIS or Windows folded everything.

So now we moved the site to Apache on Linux, and so the URLS that refer
to the code with the wrong case are not working.

I think we have two options here:

    Option 1:

        Fix all references in HTML/code that refer to this URLs. If it
        was pure HTML, I'm sure a find+grep+sed on the pages would fix
        it, but a) there are about 300k references to these URLS and b)
        a lot of these references are in compiled web code that we would
        have to fix the sources for and recompile.

    Option 2:

        In the Apache conf file put in a mod speling or rewrite (not
        sure which one is more appropriate for the task) directive that
        folds the case for every request. I'm certain this is doable
        (though I don't know how), but the only concern that I have is
        that this would put significant load on what is supposed to be a
        static images server.

Any thoughts?

C