301 redirecting Upper Case to Lower Case using regular expression?

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    does anyone know if using a regular expression to 301 redirect urls with upper-case file names to lower-case file names will work?  Site is running off of Wordpress and Joomla (working on migration to full wordpress).

    Example is .com/Article-Title.php  301 redirecting to .com/article-title.php
     
     
    sphinz, Aug 4, 2011 IP
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    yes it will work as technically they are different files and all your saying to serps is that the link is no longer .com/Article-Title.php its now .com/article-title.php.

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    Will it work with all different CMS'?  My tech team told me that they were unable to do this using a regular expression.  Any resources/pointers?
     
    sphinz, Aug 5, 2011 IP
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    what they are saying i believe to be correct as it would be hard to write an expression to do this. However if you already have several file likeTh-TP.html you can redirect them to th-tp.html but you would have to do them all MANUALLY via your htaccess if you are using wordpress this could be done easier using a plugin such as redirection but still you would have to manually create the redirects.
     
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