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Submitted by dswafford on Thu, 2009/09/24 - 16:56
Can you Remove File Case Sensetivity?
I am trying to move to Turnkey LAMP from a Windows IIS Webserver.
But I have a problem with the Files Being Case Senstive. Most of the links will not work because of it.
Windows doesn't care about files and what letters you capitalize and linux does.
Is there away I can get around this by applying a filter or patch or anything in apache / Linux? And if yes how?
Hope someone can help.
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In short, no. But...
Regarding your question, I personally would recommended renaming files/paths to be lower case and replace spaces with underscores, but thats just me. If you have a lot of files and references to those files in your website, a couple liner script would definitely help.
You could always give the Apache module mod_speling a try. I have never used it but according the docs it looks like what you are looking for. You can enable it like this: Hope this helps.
Thank You
Thank you for your anwser.
I enabled the module and put in the matching directives but I cant seem to get it to work.
I will mess with it some more and see what happens.
Do you have a refrence article about file systems and them being case sensetive?
I would like to read up about it. Its just the first time I have seen that. Makes sense though.
I would appreciate any thing else you might think will help out too.
Thank you for your help,
Darrell
I have never used that module...
Wikipedia has a Comparison of file systems article, which shows which filesystems are case-sensitive and which are not.
Good luck!
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