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title: "The same broken link appears in duplicate because of caps in the URL"
date: "2025-01-31T12:04:45+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to eliminate duplicate broken links caused by URL capitalization in Acquia Optimize scans. Adjust settings for accurate results."
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The same broken link appears in duplicate because of caps in the URL
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If the scan flags many duplicate pages where the URLs are only different because of capitalized words within the URL, there is an option turn this off in the scan setup. Only admin users can do these steps.

The setting **Case Sensitive URLs** is **ON** by default.

In the **OFF** position, the Acquia Optimize scan sees all URLs as lowercase - no matter how they are actually written in the target website. Turn **OFF** only in rare cases where the target website does not recognize caps and reads all links in lowercase, which results in duplicates in the flagged scan issues. This is an advanced configuration that should normally be left to the default setting.

1.  Navigate to the _Domain Overview_ page.
2.  Click **Action** on the same row as the domain and select **Edit Domain** from the expanded list.
3.  Locate the **Case sensitive URLs** swich. 
    
    ![The location of the Case-Sensitive URLs button in the Crawl Options section on the Edit Domain page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/19d8bfa1-b35a-4148-8203-9a9e02db28cc/web/Mon_Opt_AdminSettings-EditDomain-CrawlOptions-CaseSensitiveURLs.png)
    
4.  Toggle the switch **OFF** to instruct the scan to ignore capitalization within links, or **ON** to instruct the scan to make URL links case-sensitive.
    *   Example **OFF**: http://monsido.com/Foo/Bar is seen as the same link as http://monsido.com/foo/bar.
    *   Example **ON**: The same links above will register as two different links.