Case Sensitive Event Page URL Causing 404 Errors

[Diane]

My company has been advertising in print our website events page URL as this: http://mauimagazine.net/Maui-Events/ (using capitals) and I noticed yesterday that the page will not load when using capitals in its URL… I did some research and this seems to be the only page on the entire site that won’t work unless all text in URL is lowercase.

Using a plugin, I created a redirect for this URL since we have it published already: http://mauimagazine.net/Maui-Events/ so you will not see a 404 error today. However, you can easily test with variations using a capital letter in this URL and it will break:
This is not acceptable for the website… I am hoping you can provide a solution for this problem.

404 errors result for any of these:
http://mauimagazine.net/Maui-events
http://mauimagazine.net/mAui-events
http://mauimagazine.net/maUi-events
http://mauimagazine.net/mauI-events
http://mauimagazine.net/maui-Events
http://mauimagazine.net/maui-eVents
http://mauimagazine.net/maui-evEnts
http://mauimagazine.net/maui-eveNts
http://mauimagazine.net/maui-evenTs
etc

If I load any other post or page, including other events, the pages load fine if I use capitals or not – see examples below:

Goodbye, Sugar

Goodbye, Sugar

http://mauimagazine.net/maui-event/art-of-trash-opening-night/
http://mauimagazine.net/maui-event/Art-Of-Trash-Opening-Night/

[Brook]

Howdy Diane,

Thanks for pointing this out. Technically all URL are case sensitive. In fact a website can event serve a different page for example.com/ than it does just example.com. But, WordPress does its best working hard to swap improper URLs for the proper one, and we should too. We’ll have to add some code in the plugin to fix this, but that is definitely something we’d be interested in doing. Thanks for the bug report! In the mean time your solution of using a third party plugin to redirect is spot on, that’s exactly what I’d do.

Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers!

– Brook

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