[TYPO3-english] RealUrl: Keep hyphen AND underscore

[Ulrich Lorenz PHZ Luzern]

Hi Torsten

As far as I know it must be possible to get this working with a RewriteRule. Maybe you could post the rule you tried and failed with?


Lorenz

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: typo3-english-bounces at lists.typo3.org [mailto:typo3-english-
> bounces at lists.typo3.org] Im Auftrag von Torsten Schneider
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. April 2010 17:50
> An: typo3-english at lists.typo3.org
> Betreff: Re: [TYPO3-english] RealUrl: Keep hyphen AND underscore
> 
> Hello Dimitry
> 
> > Needs code change. But I doubt it is a good idea because people are
> used to
> > have lowercase URLs. Making something unusual makes it problematic
> for users.
> 
> Of course you are right with that.
> But my problem is that I have about 6000 Content Pages on the Site I
> migrate to TYPO3 of which about 1000 do have upper case letters in the
> URLs (not in the page name itself but in the folder structure) since
> they were created a long time ago and I didn't think of making
> everything in lowercase letters then.
> And many of these pages have lots of external links and rank very high
> in Google.
> 
> Of course I could add lots of 301 redirects to the .htaccess but doing
> this for about 1000 pages would make the .htacces extremly huge imho.
> 
> So even if it is not really a good solution to have uppercase letters,
> I
> think it would be the least terrible one...
> 
> The only other thing I could think of was to have a RewriteRule in the
> .htaccess that rewrites all uppercase letters to the lowercase
> versions.
> I tried this but I unfortunately did not get it working.
> 
> I have to fix this somehow since I could get a huge duplicate content
> problem.
> At the moment, like most servers, the server already delivers the
> content of pages with lower letters if a uppercase letter is entered:
> E.g.: Word.html delivers the content of word.html but the URL stays
> Word.html
> If now all the old external links have Word.html in them, TYPO3
> generated new internal (and new external) links will have word.html (if
> I can not change RealUrl to accept upper case from Speaking Path
> Segment
> entries) and there are no rewrites from Word.html to word.html, Google
> (and other search engines) will index the same content at two URLs,
> Word.html and word.html - giving me the Duplicate Content Problem.
> 
> 
> 
> So any idea how solve this problem is highly appreciated!
> 
> Thank you once more for your help!
> 
> Torsten
> 
> 
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