The Auto-correct URL spelling is another feature
unique to erDomain.com, and is available ONLY with our
Linux Hosting Packages. This tool attempts to automatically correct
incorrectly spelt URLs that visitors to your website might enter, by ignoring
capitalization and by allowing up to one misspelling (character
insertion/omission/transposition or wrong character).
How does it work?
Requests to documents sometimes cannot be served by the Web server because
the request was misspelled or incorrectly capitalised. This tool addresses the
problem by trying to find a matching document. It does its work by comparing
each document name in the requested directory against the requested document
name without regard to case, and allowing misspellings. A list is built with all
document names which were matched using this strategy.
If, after scanning the directory,
- no matching file was found, then the
server will proceed as usual and return a File not found error.
- only one file is found that almost
matches the request, then it is returned in the form of a redirection
response.
- more than one file with a close match was
found, then the list of the matches is returned to the client, and the
client can select the appropriate file.
Example: Suppose a visitor to your
website types in http://www.your-domain-name.com/home.htm or http://www.your-domain-name.com/Home.html
in the browser's address bar, and the actual page which exists on the web server
is home.html. Now, if the Auto Correct URL Spelling option is enabled, the
visitor will automatically be redirected to
http://www.your-domain-name.com/home.html.
Using the Auto Correct tool
Follow the process mentioned below to enable the Auto Correct URL Spelling
tool for your website:
1.
Login to your
Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased
this hosting package.
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how >>
2. In the search results view, click on the
domain name. This will take you to the order details view.
3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service
in the lower toolbar.
4. In the Website Management interface pop-up
that follows, go to Manage Website -> Web Server Manager -> Auto Correct URL Spelling.
6. Here, select the check-box against Enable
Spell Checking. To disable this feature, the checkbox needs to be unchecked.
7. Click on Submit.
IMPORTANT
In order to complete the action, the Web Server needs to be restarted. Random restarts
affect other services running on the Server. In order to avoid this, the
Server has been scheduled to restart at intervals of 20 minutes. Hence, the
change might take upto 20 minutes to be effective.