Eliminate Capitals in urls

I'm not sure if this has been subsequently taken care of, but in some previous versions of productcart, some url reference contained capital letters in them. for example www.mysite.com/Productcart/pc/viewCat.asp.

The reason for this suggestion is that in unix, a url with Capitals in it and on without capitals are treated as the same url. With windows platforms.../Productcart/pc/.... and /productcart/pc/.... and ../ProductCart/pc/... are seen as total unique urls. Also Google is case sensitive and so they would see that the above three urls all have the same content and thus would penalize two of the three pages. However if this kind of thing is happening on a massive scale, they may just penalize not just these three, but all you pages.

It is best practice to make all urls lowercase.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ProductCart is not supported under UNIX or Linux.  Here are the server requirements:

Windows 2000/2003 Server
XML 3.0 parser installed (only required if you are using real-time UPS rate calculations)
Support for MS Access or MS SQL
Ability to set READ/WRITE/DELETE Folder Permissions FOR THE *EVERYONE* user

Please ask your hosting provider to switch you to a Windows server.

It wouldn't be all that difficult to use something like Grep to just do a find&replace on the entire productcart directory and change filenames' references (and the filenames themselves) to lowercase.  If you wanted to be real lazy about it you should just convert EVERY character to lowercase.  If you're not actively editing asp then changing the casing on such a wide scale shouldn't impact you at all.  Mind you you'd have to do this after every update.  I'd just recommend swapping to a windows server.  Sounds like they've got you on unix with something like chillisoft.


Edited by NWilliams - 09-February-2007 at 4:51am