How to avoid case-sensitive URL's in a Plesk website?

[Suhitha]

Applicable to:

• Plesk for Linux

Question

How to avoid case-sensitive URLs in Plesk when:

• The file index.html exists under the website example.com home directory;

• The file index.html is opening correctly via the browser in the following way:

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http://example.com/index.html
while the opening of

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http://example.com/iNDeX.htML
leads to the following error

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404 error (Not Found)

Answer

Warning: mod_speling works only for paths which are physically present on a file system and it is not compatible with websites which are using mod_rewrite to process URLs.

Use mod_speling.so Apache module:


                              Enable this module for a specific domain:

1.Log into Plesk;

2.Go to Domains > example.com > Apache & nginx Settings > Additional Apache directives;

3.Add the following rows to the fields Additional directives for HTTP and Additional directives for HTTPS:

For Red Hat-based OSs:

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LoadModule speling_module /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_speling.so
<IfModule mod_speling.c>
CheckSpelling On
CheckCaseOnly On
</IfModule>
For Debian-based OSs:

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LoadModule speling_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_speling.so
<IfModule mod_speling.c>
CheckSpelling On
CheckCaseOnly On
</IfModule>
4.Click OK.


                                Enable this module for all domains:

• For Red Hat-based OS's:

1.Connect to the server via SSH;

2.Create a backup of the Apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

# cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf{,.bak}

3.Edit file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to add the following rows:

# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
LoadModule speling_module /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_speling.so
<IfModule mod_speling.c>
CheckSpelling On
CheckCaseOnly On
</IfModule>

4.Reload the Apache service:

# service httpd reload

5.Make sure that spelling module was loaded:

# httpd -M | grep speling_module
speling_module (shared)

• For Debian-based OS's:

1.Connect to the server via SSH;

2.Create a backup of the Apache configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

# cp /etc/apache2/apache2.conf{,.bak}

3.Edit file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf to add the following rows:

# vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
LoadModule speling_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_speling.so
<IfModule mod_speling.c>
CheckSpelling On
CheckCaseOnly On
</IfModule>

4.Reload Apache service:

# service apache2 reload

5.Make sure that spelling module was loaded:

# apache2ctl -M | grep speling_module
speling_module (shared)