URI is considered to be lowercased in htaccess. What might be wrong?

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I have been battling with this problem for a while. Suppose I go to website.com/one/tWo. In PHP $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is one/tWo. I thought this had something to do with Apache URL rewriting so I checked .htaccess and removed everything and only left:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^one/two http://www.gosomewhereelse.com [R=301,L]

To my surprise, when trying 'one/tWo', Apache actually redirects me to www.gosomewhereelse.com.

Just to be clear, there is no redirection that happens from 'one/tWo' to 'one/two'. The URL doesn't change in the address bar and it still has the uppercase character but it's still matching with ^one/two

I tried everything I could think of and couldn't find a solution.

Since you are not using the `NC` flag, it should see the case. Think this is relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1998156/case-insensitive-urls-with-mod-rewrite — Twisty, Oct 21 '15 at 18:31
I'm not using the NC flag so it shouldn't match. As far as I know NC makes the regex case insensitive. — Nizar Gharbi, Oct 21 '15 at 18:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '15 at 21:46

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This works:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/one/tWo$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.gosomewhereelse.com [R=301,L]

This also works:

RewriteRule ^one/t[W]o http://www.gosomewhereelse.com [R=301,L]

answered Oct 21 '15 at 21:46

Sergio Ivanuzzo

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 22 '15 at 05:56

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It turns out that it's not related to apache or PHP. The problem is from a third party software.

answered Oct 22 '15 at 05:56

Nizar Gharbi

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URI is considered to be lowercased in htaccess. What might be wrong?

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