mod_speling not enabling case-insensitivity as expected

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I'm running Ubuntu 12 on two separate VPS accounts, and having the same problem on both.

I've enabled the speling module via "a2enmod speling".
I have both speling.load and speling.conf in /etc/apache2/mods-available, and they're both aliased in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled.
cat speling.conf yields "CheckSpelling on", and cat speling.load gives "LoadModule speling_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_speling.so"
I've also verified that /usr/lib/apache2/modules/ does indeed contain "mod_speling.so".
I've restarted Apache repeatedly.

And yet - if I mis-capitalize a word in a URL, I get a 404. Isn't "CheckSpelling on" meant to eliminate this? Perhaps I've misunderstood.

I feel sure I've missed some silly step, but can't think what.

Rather than editing your post, I have to ask... did you spell 'spelling' correctly throughout your configuration process? I can't help but notice your ironic use of 'speling' here. — Sara, Oct 03 '12 at 03:54
"speling" is correct.The module is called mod_speling. More info here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_speling.html — Sam Moore, Oct 03 '12 at 17:21

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 19 '16 at 04:19

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This wasn't working for me all of a sudden as well, after it running fine for many years.

I changed my configuation directives from:

 CheckSpelling on
 CheckCaseOnly on

To:

 checkspelling on
 checkcaseonly on

And now it works again. So make it all lowercase and see if that helps.

answered May 19 '16 at 04:19

Michael Fever

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Better solution is to go to `00-base.conf in `\conf.modules.d` folder and remove the `#` from `LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so` and now `mod_speling.so` will load and work properly. – SSpoke May 15 '20 at 22:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '14 at 10:18

It's most likely mod_rewrite interfering with mod_speling, as spelling is not checked for urls which match mod_rewrite rules.

Check your httpd.conf, site configuration as well as .htaccess files for mod_rewrite rules which might be matching the urls you are trying to make case-insensitive.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '20 at 22:26

If your httpd.conf looks like this

Don't add

LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so

Even if that fixes the problem.. but rather go through all the directories of conf.modules.d folder and load up all the files and search for mod_speling.so, you'll find it in 00-base.conf and remove the # hashtag from it and it will load now.

mod_speling not enabling case-insensitivity as expected

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