How to make github pages url case insensitive?

Question

Website works for
jerrygoyal.github.io/Flash-Clipboard

but not for (404 error):
jerrygoyal.github.io/flash-clipboard
jerrygoyal.github.io/FLASH-clipboard
jerrygoyal.github.io/flaSH-CLIPboard and so on
You get the idea! How can I make the url case-insensitive?

I've never worked on Jekyll and not sure if my project pages are using jekyll or not. I only created an index.html page and put inside the docs folder of the repository.

I'm using a custom domain (www.jerryfactory.com) to map jerrygoyal.github.io

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Here's the URL to my Github Organisation site : https://github.com/JerryGoyal/jerrygoyal.github.io

And URL for my Github project site: https://github.com/JerryGoyal/Flash-Clipboard/tree/master/docs

I'm thinking of moving my project site content to my Github Organisation site if it's possible. So if the URL case insensitivity works for only Organisation site it's fine.

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Ref: Org and Project Site in Github

Answer 1

You can’t make it case-sensitive. Sorry. Case-sensitive URLs are a web-standard. It would be cool if URLs were case-insensitive, but that isn’t true.

Answer 2

How can I make the url case-insensitive?

The short answer is: You cannot / It's not possible in GitHub Pages as of this writing.

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The long answer is: Having URLs case-sensitive is a web standard and most webservers will respect that. This has nothing to do with Jekyll or any other similar tool. It's a responsibility of the webserver that serving the HTML pages that were generated by Jekyll, and in the case of GitHub Pages, they use a *nix-based webserver that is compliant with case-sensitive URLs when locating resources.

The common way to solve this problem is to always make sure your pages in Jekyll are always lower-case, which in turn will generate lower-cased URLs.

This shouldn't really be a problem, unless your users are typing the URLs by themselves... And in that case, if you want to be proactive, you can use the jekyll-redirect-from plugin and create redirect entries of the most common ways you believe users will try to access each page.

For example, having the main URL as

• caioproiete.github.io/flash-clipboard

and redirect the ones below to the main one above via jekyll-redirect-from

• caioproiete.github.io/Flash-Clipboard
• caioproiete.github.io/FLASH-CLIPBOARD