Nat's Geeklog - Apache: Convert uppercase to lowercase

We had a requirement from a client whose windows website we were migrating to UNIX that the new site be able to handle mixed case tickers, ie, /pwc, /Pwc, /PWC, /pwC, etc. Using mod_rewrite, it was doable:

    # Take any mixed or uppercase ticker and set to lower
    RewriteMap    lowercase    int:tolower
    RewriteRule ^(/[A-Z]...?)$ ${lowercase:$1} [R,L]
    RewriteRule ^(/.[A-Z]..?)$ ${lowercase:$1} [R,L]
    RewriteRule ^(/..[A-Z].?)$ ${lowercase:$1} [R,L]
    RewriteRule ^(/...[A-Z])$ ${lowercase:$1} [R,L]

This case conversion will be true for any 3 or 4 char URI with an uppercase letter. (It would probably be better to replace the "." above with [a-zA-Z], as it's likely intended for only chars to replace. Above will transform /a/BB as well, which is probably not desired.)

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Apache: Convert uppercase to lowercase

Authored by: nat on Wednesday, May 05 2010 @ 10:45 AM CDT

Note that this gets easier if the target is a different path, ie: redirect /pcef or /PCEF or /PceF etc to /some/other/page/pcef. To do so, simply use mod_rewrite with the NC option:

RewriteRule ^/pcef /some/other/page/pcef [NC,R,L]