[support] Do URL aliases have to be lower case?

[Larry Garfield]

On Saturday 05 May 2007, Franz Iberl wrote:
> Jon Morgan schrieb:
> > 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.

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