how to setup mixed case magento product url key

Question

I am using magento 1.7 and I have already live site running in zencart. my zencart site's product url in Mixed case like http://wwww.example.com/Silver-Bracelet when i save product in magento with this product url key Silver-Bracelet then its auto convert into small case.

my live site url is

http://www.example.com/Silver-Badge 

and on test server magento url is

http://test.example.com/silver-badge 

when in click this url then product is open but when i type url as

http://test.example.com/Silver-Badge 

then i got page not found thats why i am search to make mixed case urls in magento so please can any body please tell me how to change this url key in to mixed case

Answer 1

I got solution for following code and it works. i know this is hack type but it solves my motive i place this code in index.php. because i am unable to put RewriteMap in httpd.conf

$loadurl = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$match   = array();

$port = $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == 80 ? 'http://' : 'https://';

if( preg_match('/([A-Z])/',$loadurl) && $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'GET'){
  header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 
  $url = $port.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/'.strtolower( strtoupper( trim( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ,'/') ));
  header('location:'.$url);
  exit;
}

Answer 2

Rather than change Magento, can't you change your URLs?

Is there any reason you can't just have it in lower case? Simply adding this to your .htaccess would preserve any indexed URLs.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteMap  lc int:tolower
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [A-Z]
RewriteRule (.*) ${lc:$1} [R=301,L]

URLs in lower case are move advantageous for a number of reasons ...

• URL consistency
• Easier to type a URL by hand without scope for error
• Looks cleaner

But that's just my £0.02

Answer 3

Definitely just setup 301 redirects for all these urls to lower case versions as Magento wants you to do. Matt Cutts just confirmed that 301 redirects do not hurt page rank at all http://searchengineland.com/google-pagerank-dilution-through-a-301-redirect-is-a-myth-149656