We are running Apache2 2.2 on openSuSE 12.2 and have created an alias called "BAMWeb", that points to a directory. We do not want users to worry about the capitalization and want the alias to be case insensitive. I found post about a module called mod_speling. I loaded the module and verified that it was loaded using the "apache2ctl -M" command:


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setenvif_module (shared)
ssl_module (shared)
userdir_module (shared)
php5_module (shared)
reqtimeout_module (shared)
speling_module (shared)
mono_module (shared)
Syntax OK


It also said to define a Directive:

CheckSpelling on

I tried placing that in the httpd.conf file and restarted the server, but that did not work. I also tried it in the default-server.conf as well, but that also did not work. The documentation is a bit vague on where to put the directive in. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Keith

I put it within the <Directory> section for my default site's webroot. Works pretty well, though not always as you expect.

Thank you for the quick reply. I put it in the following context in the httpd.conf file:

<Directory />
CheckSpelling on
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>

Restarted apache2 (service apache2 restart)

But I still must capaitalize the location. It is <fqdn>/BAMWeb. I am trying to be able to access it by using <fqdn/bamweb> or <fqdn>/Bamweb, etc...

I also put it in the default-server.conf file within the DocuementRoot context, restarted, but still no change.

I am sure it is a missed step that I am not seeing. other than loading the module, is there anything else I should have accomplished?

Thanks,
Keith

Surely "/" is not your webroot? I think on Suse it would be like /srv/www/htdocs.

As far as I can remember there was nothing else to it, but I was installing on Debian. I don't think I've installed it on Suse ever.

Yes it is /srv/www/htdocs. That is defined in the default-server.conf file, which is why I tried it there. Unfortunately, is did not work there either. I figured I would try it int he httpd.conf file as well and the / was the only thing defined there. Thank you for your responses though.

Ok, so in trying to figure this out more. I found out a few things. First we are using mono to run a .net application. In the httpd.conf file I posted earlier (the complete one), it shows the following:

AddMonoApplications default "/BAMWeb:/srv/www/htdocs/"
<Location /BAMWeb>
SetHandler mono
</Location>


The "/BAMWeb" is what we are trying to get case insensitive. I starting focusing on mono and found a setting called MONO_IOMAP that can be set. Although I set it in the httpd.conf it does not allow me to put in /bamweb or /bamweb. However it looks like actual files or directories become insensitive as I can enter Default.aspx or DEFAULT.ASPX or default.aspx as the index page. So it appears to be mono related.

I just figured I would provide the latest on this issue. Thank you for your time in responding so far.

Thanks,
Keith