Laravel case insensitive routes

Question

How do I define a case insensitive (part of a) route?

Example:

Route::get('/{userId}/profile');
http://domain.com/123/profile works fine.

Any use of uppercase in the fixed part of the route does not work:

http://domain.com/123/Profile does not work
http://domain.com/123/proFILE does not work

I understand how I can make parameters like {parameter} use a regex pattern using ->with(), but that does not help me with the fixed part of the route, like described above.

Strictly speaking, using a parameter and regex *could* help with your specific problem (turn profile into a dynamic param, specify that it must be the word 'profile' case insensitively) however I understand that's far from an ideal solution. Definite stop-gap measure though. — alexrussell, Feb 12 '14 at 14:48
The fixed part couldn't be case insensitive but if it were a dynamic param you could have done it as you know that already. — The Alpha, Feb 12 '14 at 16:08
did you try something like `Route::get('{userId}/{profile}','Controller@action')->where('profile','/profile/i');` ? — Gadoma, Feb 13 '14 at 09:40

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '14 at 11:27

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This can be solved by defining routes the following way:

Route::get('/{userId}/{profile}')->with('profile', '(?i)profile(?-i)');

Even smarter, define it as pattern, then it also becomes available in Route groups.

Route::pattern('profile', '(?i)profile(?-i)');
Route::get('/{userId}/{profile}');

answered Feb 13 '14 at 11:27

preyz

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nice. I like the pattern solution – ryanwinchester Feb 21 '14 at 02:12
This helped me just now. Thank you. – ceejayoz Feb 03 '16 at 14:50
In the first example, did you mean `->where()` instead of `->with()`? `where` works by using a route regular expression, whereas in Laravel 5.3 `with` causes an error `Call to undefined method Illuminate\Routing\Route::with()` – Daryn Jul 03 '18 at 05:54

S.. · Answer 2 · 2015-08-16T09:19:05.250

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Adding patterns only works on one route at a time, if you want all routes to be case insensitive add this to your /app/filter.php file in the before section:

I wrote a gist which does this: https://gist.github.com/samthomson/f670f9735d200773e543

Edit your app/filters.php to check for uppercase characters in the route and redirect them to a converted route.

edited Aug 16 '15 at 09:19

answered Aug 14 '15 at 14:20

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 02 '17 at 10:34

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For those using Apache you could also do this:

At this the top of your vhost file add

RewriteEngine On
RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower

and in your .htaccess

RewriteCond $1 [A-Z]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /${lowercase:$1} [R=301,L]

answered Jun 02 '17 at 10:34

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I haven't tried the mentioned solutions, but just came to think about general conversion of the URL to lower case: Some routes may need mixed upper/lower case, for example when case sensitive parameters are passed along via the URL (e.g. certain hash types etc). – preyz Jun 03 '17 at 16:24

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