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Need Help Making Destination Url Lower Case

Regex Destination url needs to be lower case. I found this code that will convert it to lower case in the httpd.conf file.

RewriteMap lc int:tolower
RewriteRule (.*?[A-Z]+.*) ${lc:$1} [R]

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Here is a sample url

http://www.theherbsplace.com/Garlic_Oil_Capsules_p_400.html

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source url

https://www.theherbsplace.com/product/garlic_oil_capsules_p_400/

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target url

I need to know if there is a better way to do this. Because it seems very slow on Xampp.

David S.

The alternative would be to use a PHP script. To handle the case conversion and the (external) redirect.

RewriteRule (.*?[A-Z]+.*) lowercase.php?page=%{REQUEST_URI}

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I don't recall ever using RewriteMap myself.

sharingsunshine

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I found this one

<?php
if(isset($_GET['rewrite-strtolower-url'])) {
    $url = $_GET['rewrite-strtolower-url'];
    unset($_GET['rewrite-strtolower-url']);
    $params = http_build_query($_GET);
    if(strlen($params)) {
        $params = '?' . $params;
    }
    // if you don't have SSL/a security certificate at the destination change https:// to http:// below
    header('Location: https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/' . strtolower($url) . $params, true, 301);
    exit;
}
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
die('Unable to convert the URL to lowercase. You must supply a URL to work upon.');

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but I couldn't make it work. Do you have any suggestions?

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