support forcing lowercase URLs
It's poor SEO to be able to access the same pages of a website on different URLs - this includes capital letter URLs for any web service that utilises re-writes (e.g. a CMS such as Wordpress).
This can be resolved by utilising htaccess with a RewriteMap or Nginx, see links below. But none of these options are included in the standard server config and Cloudways interface doesn't allow them to be added.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19048192/force-lower-case-of-urls-override-previous-rules
Be really useful if this was possible. Support tried to implement the htaccess option for me, but it took down Nginx for some unknown reason - I've implemented this in the past on an Nginx stack.
Peter Lewis
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Afraz Ahmed
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It can easily be done with following .htaccess directives (preferably placed on top of other rules)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond expr "tolower(%{REQUEST_URI}) =~ /(.*)/"
RewriteRule [A-Z] %1 [R=301,L]