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Description: | Attempts to correct mistaken URLs that users might have entered by ignoring capitalization and by allowing up to one misspelling |
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Status: | Extension |
Module Identifier: | speling_module |
Source File: | mod_speling.c |
Requests to documents sometimes cannot be served by the core apache server because the request was misspelled or miscapitalized. This module addresses this problem by trying to find a matching document, even after all other modules gave up. It does its work by comparing each document name in the requested directory against the requested document name without regard to case, and allowing up to one misspelling (character insertion / omission / transposition or wrong character). A list is built with all document names which were matched using this strategy.
If, after scanning the directory,
Description: | Enables the spelling module |
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Syntax: | CheckSpelling on|off |
Default: | CheckSpelling Off |
Context: | server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess |
Override: | Options |
Status: | Extension |
Module: | mod_speling |
Compatibility: | CheckSpelling was available as a separately available
module for Apache 1.1, but was limited to miscapitalizations. As
of Apache 1.3, it is part of the Apache distribution. Prior to Apache
1.3.2, the CheckSpelling directive was only available in the
"server" and "virtual host" contexts. |
This directive enables or disables the spelling module. When enabled, keep in mind that
http://my.host/~apahce/
), just file names or
directory names.<Location /status>
may
get incorrectly treated as the negotiated file
"/stats.html
".