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
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.
Ref: Org and Project Site in Github
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.
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 is 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.
A common way to solve this problem is to 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
augustoproiete.github.io/flash-clipboard
and redirect the ones below to the main one above via jekyll-redirect-from
augustoproiete.github.io/Flash-Clipboard
augustoproiete.github.io/FLASH-CLIPBOARD
There is no direct way to make github page URLs case-sensitive. But, you can use following hack:-
Redirect from 404 page with mixed-case or upper-case URL to lower case URL. Steps to achieve this:-
Just go to your root repo (your_username.github.io).
If not already exist then create a 404.html file and add the following script in it.
<script>
window.onload = () => {
currentURL = window.location.href;
lowerCaseURL = currentURL.toLowerCase();
if (currentURL != lowerCaseURL) {
location.replace(lowerCaseURL);
}
};
</script>
Note:- Make sure your pages/repo name are always in lower-case.
Logic explained with example:-
If your URL is:-
anmol53.github.io/bmi-tracker
and someone tried following URL:-
anmol53.github.io/BMI-Tracker
By default he/she will get 404. Now we will redirect him/her to anmol53.github.io/bmi-tracker by changing case of current URL by using above script.
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.
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So the obvious answer is that its necessary because it serves routed paths from the server, so that we don't get 404s.
However solutions like angular-cli-ghpages solves this by adding a script to the app that parses parameters returned in a 404 that will then reroute the app to the correct state.
So just curious are there any drawbacks to this and why would this not be used in general instead of solutions like Angular Universal or Rendertron?
For example this is what spa-github-pages says:
A quick SEO note - while it's never good to have a 404 response, it appears based on Search Engine Land's testing that Google's crawler will treat the JavaScript window.location redirect in the 404.html file the same as a 301 redirect for its indexing. From my testing I can confirm that Google will index all pages without issue, the only caveat is that the redirect query is what Google indexes as the url. For example, the url example.tld/about will get indexed as example.tld/?p=/about. When the user clicks on the search result, the url will change back to example.tld/about once the site loads.
Because of two main things:
First page load speed;
SEO
Robots do not run javascript, so they parse what the get from server and than the Universal comes around.
Even using --aot builded app served by ghpages with a 404 page that is a clone from the index, the client/robot still needs to get the first files, parse them and finally mount the final view. Gh-pages do not serve the final html state.
Is there any URL google has that contains the raw data for the file? using https://drive.google.com/file/d/FILE_ID just takes you to a 'share' section of the file... say I have a .js file on GDrive. If you go to their share link, they have a share page. Is there any link to get the raw javascript from the file, as to use in a <script src="google_link_or_whatever">?
First, go to the sharing settings for your document and choose "Anyone with a link." It will generate a link in the format https://drive.google.com/file/d/XXX/view?usp=sharing.
Now you can use the following URL format: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=XXX
Note that I'm seeing an HTTP redirect when I do this, so use curl -L on the command line or otherwise make sure that your HTTP client follows redirect.
Sharing link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/YOUR_ID/view?usp=sharing
Raw download link:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=YOUR_ID
NOTE - THIS WAS THE SOLUTION BUT IT NO LONGER WORKS - SEE COMMENT BY #Bobby Fritze below
No API's and no JS necessary.
Confirmed now working on latest version of Drive.
Great workaround for if your server doesn't use https but a vendor plugin demands https to call in a CSS or other file:
On the folder with your intended file (e.g. FILE.css), hit Sharing Settings, then Advanced, then select "Public on the web - Anyone on the Internet can find and view."
In the URL bar (or share link), copy everything after the drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/
Use that ID to replace the XX-XXXXXXXXXXXXX in: http://googledrive.com/host/XX-XXXXXXXXXXXXX/FILE.css
Navigate to the appended URL in Step 3 and you will now see your raw data.
My use case below:
<script type="text/javascript">
var vsDisableResize = false;
var vsCssUrl = 'https://cbe7c864b9c1ae8d5be60c7fed3e467334a04d2f.googledrive.com/host/0B9ngkmVbo5T7TDhTTU81M25iNnc/cart.css';
var vsWineryId = '850';
var vsWineListId = '71';
Credit to #chris.huh at: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/MyD7dgLJaEo
I have a link to my site on a very popular but now dead website. The link is incorrect, so I'd like to redirect users to the correct page when they visit. I'm using Wordpress for my content.
The problems lie in the fact that the incorrect URL that the website lists is http://www.senntenial.com/#!mysterium/cj6d . From my research, I cannot do a 301 redirect in my htaccess, since this URL has a # sign, and is client only.
So, I tried creating the following script in my header.php file.
if (window.location == 'http://www.senntenial.com/#!mysterium/cj6d'){
window.location = 'http://www.senntenial.com/mysterium/';
}
I would think this would have worked, but it doesn't. To identify the problem, I tried simply inputting window.location = 'http://www.senntenial.com/mysterium/'; Which worked correctly, meaning my problem lies in identifying the current window location.
How can I accomplish this? I assume Wordpress has a funky way of going about things with URL's to make them easier to read that may be messing with my code.
(PS, I tried WP extensions like EPS 301 redirect to no avail.)
Also, the mysterium page is static HTML, and not involved with Wordpress' CMS.
There's window.location.hash which gives the fragment part of the current URI. So something like
if(window.location.hash=="#!mysterium/cj6d"){
window.location = 'http://www.senntenial.com/mysterium/';
}
Might work. You could also use window.location.href which contains the full URI but then you need to check with and without www.
So, i have an interesting situation. I've been working on re-organizing a directory on a website. I updated old files there's about 100 of them, they are in a new location. The old files have been taken down.
The problem I have is there are probably hundreds of people that have bookmarks directly to the URL of the old files. (e.i. "wahwah.com/subSite/pdfs/something.pdf") these files are 5 years old so they need to find the new ones anyways.
So instead of having a page for each individual file, Can I have something in the directory that used to house the files to watch for that URL and redirect to the new page?
It would watch for "wahwah.com/subSite/pdfs.." and redirect. Or maybe something in the main directory of this subSite to watch for the URL to have the /pdf path in it.
I know I can grab URLs in java script but that doesn't help me unless I can do what I stated above. I'm not sure how if at all I could do it in .NET. our servers support .NET because most of our site apps were made with it but I don't deal with those. I cannot use PHP, the servers don't use it.
I'm hoping JavaScript will be able to do it somehow, but it's something i've never tried before so just thinking about it i'm not sure I can. I'm not much for using JS libraries so Im not sure what is out there i've been searching a bit though.
I found Grunt but i'm not entirely sure how it works just yet. Just looking around maybe the file filter or matchBase. or some of the Global patterns.
If you have access to server, your best option is to set up redirect in there on wahwah.com/subSite/pdfs/ directory.
How to do this depends on if you're on IIS or unix.
In asp.net, 301 redirect is fairly efficient.
if (HttpContext.Contains("http://old.aspx"))
{
HttpContext.Current.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("http://www.new.aspx");
}
Or in page load you can write:
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location","http://new.aspx");
Is there any way to get the requested path (the path displayed in the browser address bar) vs the redirected path for a subdomain (hidden from the user) using javascript
I am using a shared javascript file (shared across multiple pages and sites) that determines the controller and action (MVC) using window.location.pathname but... I have just caught myself out as my deployment runs under sub-domains which I wasn't representing in the Visual Studio dev environment. the sub-domains on my host redirect to a /subdomain folder as is usually the case but now my window.location.pathname pulls back /subdomain/controller/action whereas the URL in the address bar is /controller/action
Obviously I can tweak my javascript to handle this situation - however there may not always be a subdomain (at least in my dev environment if nothing else - and I am dead against solutions like having "isdev" style flags throughout my code) so I have to have a fail-over for those instances which means things start to get a little more complicated thus being more prone to error.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Btw I do not want to use values from .Net e.g. HttpContext... as my js is in an external file and I do not want to create a dependency on data in a view for it to work as this means every time I consume the js on a new page I have to remember to include the additional logic in the view for it to work, plus if I change my js file it may result in me having to refactor a bunch of views as well.
Cheers
Rob
window.location.href should return the entire URL that the site is currently at, including the subdomain e.g. http://subdomain.site.com/path/to/page.aspx
Alternatively you can use window.location.host and it will return everything except for the path, or window.location.pathname to return just the relative path to the file.
See the MDC article on window.location for more information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.location