Make Folders in Apache Case Insensitive using .htaccess

Question

I need to make accessing directories on my server case insensitive.

How do I do that using htaccess?

Answer 1

You have to install and enable the mod_speling module in apache and set the CheckCaseOnly Directive to On in your .htaccess

CheckCaseOnly On

Answer 2

If you want requested URLs to be valid whether uppercase or lowercase letters are used, use mod_speling to make URLs case-insensitive. Write the following code in .htaccess file:

CheckSpelling On

Answer 3

This is what I used because my hosting is shared and does not include the mod_spelling module but does support .htaccess, but this only works for one folder:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^student-government/$ http://www.tombarrasso.com/Student-Government/ [R=302,NC,L]

The folder to redirect to can be any case, so you could use lower-case folders and redirect all variations of spelling there.

I suppose it could be adapted with a little bit of REGEX to work for all folders rather than just one. This worked for me on Apache 2.2.14 (Unix).