help! disabling apache server case sensitivity

switching to Apache from IIS, many images not displaying because of
improper case - IIS is case insensitive. I need to disable case
sensitivity on the Apache server. so, for example
http://images.domain.com/Header.jpg will display header.jpg. How can I
accomplish this?

On Fri, 30 Sep 2004, Curt H. wrote:

> switching to Apache from IIS, many images not displaying because of
> improper case - IIS is case insensitive.

URLs are, by definition, case-sensitive.

> I need to disable case sensitivity on the Apache server.

Your choice of words suggests that you don't understand the problem.

IIS isn't literally case-insensitive: no web server can be, because
URLs are, by definition, case-sensitive. what it really does is to
hide the problem. At a nontrivial cost in terms of cacheability etc.

> so, for example http://images.domain.com/Header.jpg will display
> header.jpg. How can I accomplish this?

You can get some way to hiding the problem in Apache by turning on
mod_speling, until you can find the time to actually solve it.
mod_speling does less overall damage than IIS, because it redirects
mis-cased URL references to their canonical URL, rather than serving
out the same resource under lots of different URLs.

A tool which then searches for redirections (e. Xenu link checker with
appropriate option settings) can help to repair the original problem.

good luck