$host doesn't work with case insensitive domains

[Marcos Neves]

Thats a good idea, but I dont know how.

Marcos Neves
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:03 PM, David Murphy <david at icewatermedia.com> wrote:
> Why don’t you use   Embedded Perl ( http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxEmbeddedPerlModule ) to    do a string to lower type function , so the path is sanitized?
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> David Murphy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nginx at sysoev.ru [mailto:owner-nginx at sysoev.ru] On Behalf Of ami
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:50 PM
> To: nginx at sysoev.ru
> Subject: $host doesn't work with case insensitive domains
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> Hi
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> for example,
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> domain.com will work fine.
> but if I will request Domain.com/DOMAIN.COM/domAin.com it will result in a Not Found 404 (because there is no "/var/www/html/domAin.com" etc.)
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> I used the $host variable for virtual hosts root /var/www/html/$host;
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> it happens because the directory is in lowercase name in linux  (/var/www/html/domain.com) so is there anyway to make nginx read all incoming domains as lowercase ones ?
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> p.s sorry for the bad english.
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> thanks.
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> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,8548,8548#msg-8548
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