On Apr 14, 2011, at 14:49, stas kim wrote: > This might help >> > http://www.pseudocoder.com/Super_Awesome_Advanced_CakePHP_Tips.pdf > > search 'Case Insensitive'
I haven't read the rest of that document, but the Case Insensitive section is certainly inaccurate. Its first sentence "Generally Internet URLs are case insensitive" is false. As I explained previously in this thread, URLs are generally case-sensitive. The example given in the document (the CakePHP Wikipedia page) only works because someone has gone an installed a redirect page that redirects the all-lowercase version to the correctly-cased version. You can easily demonstrate the case-sensitivity of Wikipedia URLs by trying to access some other case permutation of the URL, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAKEphp Furthermore, the advice given on how to make CakePHP case-insensitive is poor, because it allows multiple URLs (i.e. all case variations) to appear to be authoritative for a resource. For SEO reasons, and for reasons of general sanity, you want only one single URL (e.g. the lowercase one) to be the canonical URL of a resource. So a better solution would be one that occurs before CakePHP's routes (e.g. something in the web server, e.g. mod_rewrite if you're using Apache) and sends all non-canonical versions of a URL to the canonical URL using a 301 Moved Permanent redirect, as already discussed previously in this thread. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
