title: Changing last part of URL to be uppercase using htaccess?
body: <p>Not sure if this is a smart way to deal with the problem, which is...</p>
  
  <p>I have a bunch of user dirs that make up a part of their url, eg</p>
  
  <pre><code>www.mysite.com/users/USERDIR
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I created the site (and since then), user dirs are created using capitals. I wish I hadn't, but it's done. so if someone types in www.mysite.com/users/userdir - it can't find that dir - it has to be in capitals like www.mysite.com/users/USERDIR.</p>
  
  <p>I was wondering....</p>
  
  <p>a) is there a way to tell htaccess "ignore the case when looking for the url?" </p>
  
  <p>or</p>
  
  <p>b) is there a way to deal with this in htaccess, so that no matter what case the user uses, my server will ALWAYS convert the USERDIR to capitals? I need to take into account that some people might type www.mysite.com/users/USERDIR/index.php, and www.mysite.com/users/USERDIR/ with a trailing slash.</p>
  
  <p>I've found some code that converts from lower to upper case letters (below), but is there a way to say "only do this for anything after mysite.com/users/ until either the end or the next slash if one is entered"?</p>
  
  <p>Note - the following does the opposite to what I'm after re case - I just haven't yet recoded it to convert lower to upper. </p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  
  # If there are caps, set HASCAPS to true and skip next rule
  RewriteRule [A-Z] - [E=HASCAPS:TRUE,S=1]
  
  # Skip this entire section if no uppercase letters in requested URL
  RewriteRule ![A-Z] - [S=28]
  
  # Replace single occurance of CAP with cap, then process next Rule.
  RewriteRule ^([^A]*)A(.*)$ $1a$2
  RewriteRule ^([^B]*)B(.*)$ $1b$2
  RewriteRule ^([^C]*)C(.*)$ $1c$2
  RewriteRule ^([^D]*)D(.*)$ $1d$2
  RewriteRule ^([^E]*)E(.*)$ $1e$2
  RewriteRule ^([^F]*)F(.*)$ $1f$2
  RewriteRule ^([^G]*)G(.*)$ $1g$2
  RewriteRule ^([^H]*)H(.*)$ $1h$2
  RewriteRule ^([^I]*)I(.*)$ $1i$2
  RewriteRule ^([^J]*)J(.*)$ $1j$2
  RewriteRule ^([^K]*)K(.*)$ $1k$2
  RewriteRule ^([^L]*)L(.*)$ $1l$2
  RewriteRule ^([^M]*)M(.*)$ $1m$2
  RewriteRule ^([^N]*)N(.*)$ $1n$2
  RewriteRule ^([^O]*)O(.*)$ $1o$2
  RewriteRule ^([^P]*)P(.*)$ $1p$2
  RewriteRule ^([^Q]*)Q(.*)$ $1q$2
  RewriteRule ^([^R]*)R(.*)$ $1r$2
  RewriteRule ^([^S]*)S(.*)$ $1s$2
  RewriteRule ^([^T]*)T(.*)$ $1t$2
  RewriteRule ^([^U]*)U(.*)$ $1u$2
  RewriteRule ^([^V]*)V(.*)$ $1v$2
  RewriteRule ^([^W]*)W(.*)$ $1w$2
  RewriteRule ^([^X]*)X(.*)$ $1x$2
  RewriteRule ^([^Y]*)Y(.*)$ $1y$2
  RewriteRule ^([^Z]*)Z(.*)$ $1z$2
  
  # If there are any uppercase letters, restart at very first RewriteRule in file.
  RewriteRule [A-Z] - [N]
  
  RewriteCond %{ENV:HASCAPS} TRUE
  RewriteRule ^/?(.*) /$1 [R=301,L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks for taking a look!</p>