case sensititivity with users controller on certain hosting

W开发者_Go百科e generally use two different hosting services. On one, everything works ticketyboo, as it does on my local dev servers. On the other server, however, I am having this problem:

I can't access the users controller like this: http://www.example.com/users/login

But I can like this: http://www.example.com/Users/login

** note the capitalised 'Users' **

If I displace the application to a sub-folder everything works fine (both upper- and lowercase).

The hosting company have looked at it and can't see a problem at their end and they assure me that users is not a reserved word.

You might say this isn't a problem, just use the version that works. Unfortunately it leads to problems downstream where Cake core starts generating urls itself.

Anybody else seen this problem or know the solution?

[This only occurs on the users controller - all others work as expected]

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Without seeing all your code / diving in too deeply, I'm not sure what the cause of this problem is. Do you have some special stuff going on in the routes.php file? If you have a specific route defined for users, that could be it.

However, you could make a quick fix -- in UsersController (or AppController if you want to ensure this behavior doesn't pop up elsewhere) just add a line to the beforeFilter() method to capitalize / decapitalize (whichever is more appropriate) the controller parameter.

[edit] - sorry, didn't finish that first paragraph. It still could be the routes file, even though it works on one server and not the other, because it's possible that the working server uses a case-insensitive apache module that normalizes all urls. This is why it's so nice to have your staging and dev setups being EXACTLY the same as production.

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While the hosting support denied that the word 'user' or 'users' or 'Users' was in any way reserved, it seems that it was:

"We have removed the users/ redirect"

Problem solved.