Eliminate Capitals in urls
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Topic: Eliminate Capitals in urls
Posted By: ledfish
Subject: Eliminate Capitals in urls
Date Posted: 28-March-2006 at 8:32pm
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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 http://www.mysite.com/Productcart/pc/viewCat.asp - 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.
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Posted By: ksbrzoz
Date Posted: 28-January-2007 at 11:17pm
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I am having problems with the inconsistent use of capitals in the links and
files. I am getting 404 errors. My hosting company has a unix which is case sensitive, and their suggestion was to put an .htaccess file with a directive, but they would not give me details on how to do that. Has anyone used a .htaccess file to help with the case sensitivity? |
Posted By: ProductCart
Date Posted: 28-January-2007 at 11:56pm
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ProductCart is not supported under UNIX or Linux. Here are the server requirements: Please ask your hosting provider to switch you to a Windows server. ------------- The ProductCart Team Home of ProductCart http://www.productcart.com" rel="nofollow - shopping cart software |
Posted By: ksbrzoz
Date Posted: 29-January-2007 at 8:07am
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Well, supposedly the server runs a windows/Unix combination. After going
back and forth with them on verifying that they are compatible with ProductCart or any Windows program, they said they were. I'll take it up again with them. Thanks |
Posted By: NWilliams
Date Posted: 09-February-2007 at 4:45am
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It wouldn't be all that difficult to use something like http://www.gnu.org/software/grep - 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. |
Posted By: metalmania
Date Posted: 10-February-2007 at 9:22am
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Just had to clarify a couple of points. Windows is NOT case sensitive - http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/case%20sensitive - click here for info . And neither is Google - http://www.google.com/help/basics.html - click here for more info and see the Capitilisation info. UNIX is case sensitive, but as pointed out ProductCart requires a windows platform. |
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