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    • Duncan_Moss
      Duncan_Moss last edited by

      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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      • CoreyNorthcutt
        CoreyNorthcutt last edited by

        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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        • Duncan_Moss
          Duncan_Moss last edited by

          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

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