ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums : Eliminate Capitals in urls https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:44:37 +0000 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:22:07 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=157 <![CDATA[ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums]]> https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ <![CDATA[Eliminate Capitals in urls : ledfish wrote:With windows...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post1896.html#1896 Author: metalmania
Subject: 157
Posted: 10-February-2007 at 9:22am

Originally posted by ledfish ledfish wrote:

With windows platforms.../Productcart/pc/.... and /productcart/pc/.... and ../ProductCart/pc/... are seen as total unique urls. Also Google is case sensitive...

Just had to clarify a couple of points.

Windows is NOT case sensitive - click here for info.

And neither is Google - click here for more info and see the Capitilisation info.

UNIX is case sensitive, but as pointed out ProductCart requires a windows platform.

]]> Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:22:07 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post1896.html#1896 <![CDATA[Eliminate Capitals in urls : It wouldn&#039;t be all that...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post1881.html#1881 Author: NWilliams
Subject: 157
Posted: 09-February-2007 at 4:45am

It wouldn't be all that difficult to use something like 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.


Edited by NWilliams - 09-February-2007 at 4:51am]]> Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:45:59 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post1881.html#1881 <![CDATA[Eliminate Capitals in urls : Well, supposedly the server runs...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post1805.html#1805 Author: ksbrzoz
Subject: 157
Posted: 29-January-2007 at 8:07am

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]]> Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:07:47 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post1805.html#1805 <![CDATA[Eliminate Capitals in urls : ProductCartis not supported under...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post1799.html#1799 Author: ProductCart
Subject: 157
Posted: 28-January-2007 at 11:56pm

ProductCart is not supported under UNIX or Linux.  Here are the server requirements:

Windows 2000/2003 Server
XML 3.0 parser installed (only required if you are using real-time UPS rate calculations)
Support for MS Access or MS SQL
Ability to set READ/WRITE/DELETE Folder Permissions FOR THE *EVERYONE* user

Please ask your hosting provider to switch you to a Windows server.

]]> Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:56:07 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post1799.html#1799 <![CDATA[Eliminate Capitals in urls : I am having problems with the...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post1797.html#1797 Author: ksbrzoz
Subject: 157
Posted: 28-January-2007 at 11:17pm

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?]]> Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:17:19 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post1797.html#1797 <![CDATA[Eliminate Capitals in urls : I&#039;m not sure if this has...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/eliminate-capitals-in-urls_topic157_post442.html#442 Author: ledfish
Subject: 157
Posted: 28-March-2006 at 8:32pm

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 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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