On Saturday 05 May 2007, Franz Iberl wrote:

Jon Morgan schrieb:

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Hi everyone,

Do Drupal URL aliases have to be lower case? example:

node/32 => Repository/YOUTroubleShooting

doesn't seem to work, but:

node/32 => repository/youtroubleshooting

workes. I'm using 4.7 with clean urls. Thanks for any help...

-jon

UNIX-(Server)-Filesystems are case-sensitive, i.e. all of the path after the first '/' has to keep the case (Windows e.g. is not, hence some confusion I guess). Sometimes 'cheap' software does not care about it (e.g. is converting all to lower case) and fails.

I am using all cases on two Drupal sites and no problem with URL aliases - as long as you *keep the case*.

Path aliases don't actually hit the disk, so Unix file semantics don't matter. The alias is looked up by string literal in a lookup table, so it is case-sensitive. Upper-case aliases are fine, they're just case-sensitive.