How do you find old linking url's that contain uppercase letters?
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We have recently moved our back office systems, on the old system we had the ability to use upper and lower case letters int he url's. On the new system we can only use lower case, which we are happy with.
However any old url's being used from external sites to link into us that still have uppercase letterign now hit the 404 error page. So, how do we find them and any solutions?
Example:
http://www.christopherward.co.uk/men.html - works
http://www.christopherward.co.uk/Men.html - Fails
Kind regards
Mark
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I would definitely setup some 301 redirects; done dynamically, if it's for a lot of pages. You'll want that old 'link juice', as well as any inbound visitors. Depending on whether your hosting is IIS or Apache-based, it's done a little bit differently, but should be pretty straight-forward.
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Hi Corey
Thanks for the response.
I'm looking at 301's and adding them in as required. Hosting is Apache based. As always as going through the data there were pre-existing issues that me beign causign a knock on effect.
Cheers
Mark