Convert Subcontext of a Web URL to lowercase using Apache Mod_Rewrite

This article focus on a requirement from a customer who wants to alter a Web URL to his website. He wanted to convert a section in the request URL to lowercase. In a nutshell, below show his requirement.

Original: http://www.example.org/App/dosomething.php
Alterd: http://www.example.org/app/dosomething.php
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Apache 2.4.16 installation with SSL manually on RHEL 7.0/CentOS 7.0

In this article, we are going to build Apache service (2.4.16) with custom settings and install it on RHEL 7.0 from scratch with SSL support. Before we start, let’s install dependencies required.

Post build packages required,

yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
yum install openssl-devel
yum install pcre-devel

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Configuring a Subversion server with Apache2 and DAV

Subversion is very popular software version and revision control system where developers can maintain current and previous versions development work. It’s gradually replacing the old Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and provide more sophistic set of features to developers. In this article I will explain you how to configure a Subversion (svn) server which uses Apache2 and DAV module. Also I presume that you have a running Apache2 service in your server.

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