Capitialization of Filenames Vs all small letters

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by rederick, Feb 28, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hello, I have a site that has some links to pages that are in all small letters and some that contain capital letters.
    Basically I have one page "vista-mls.php" but I have linked to it like this

    "Vista-MLS.php"

    "vista-mls.php"

    What has happened is Google has cached both these pages seperatly, I would hope that google would be able to tell that they are both the same page, but it doesn't seem like it since the cached dates are different for both files.

    Hopefully I have provided enough information for some help.
     
    rederick, Feb 28, 2006 IP
  2. forkqueue

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    On any proper server platform (ie, not Microsoft's IIS pos) Vista-MLS.php and vista-mls.php are different files, so you can hardly blame Google.

    I suggest you remove the link with the upper case letters.
     
    forkqueue, Feb 28, 2006 IP
  3. rederick

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    Thanks, That is what we are going to do, problem is I was using some mod_rewrite that actaully allowed both pages to be viewed. if the page is named "vista-mls.php" then any links to the page "Vista-MLS.php" Should return a 404 error... I'll have to go through the site and make sure all the filenanames are consistant with their Capitization.
    Hopefully this will not cause to much duplicate content issues.
     
    rederick, Feb 28, 2006 IP
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    I'd also suggest to 301 any of those pages that are bringing any descent traffic - may help take care of any dupe content issue and preserve some traffic.
     
    mdvaldosta, Feb 28, 2006 IP