Re: [cobalt-users] uppercase / lowercase subdirectories

[SteelHead <brk@xxxxxxxx>]

There is a trick that might work as well...
http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/newbies/newb016.html

I still suggest you consider the naming convention used to be a blessing
rather than curse and make them all deal with it.

bill

> > Greetings,
> >
> > I seem to be experiencing a funny problem... I have a lot of sites that
> are
> > under my domain name in subdirectories (example:
> www.domain.com/clientname)
> > - these worked fine on my old NT server when people typed them in either
> all
> > in caps or all lowercase - now on the RAQ 4 I get a error "file not
found"
>
> This is a major difference in the two platforms.  ASCII values are
different
> for uppercase and lower case letters. UNIX (and Linux) uses this to
declare
> that each ascii value is different, and therefore there are many more ways
> to name a file/folder etc.  Windows assumes that upper case lower case may
> (or may not) be the same value.  Consider the differing values to be an
> asset and take advantage of the Upper case / Lower case difference.
>
> > message when trying to access in all CAPS (on the server the directory
> name
> > is in lower-case).
> >
> > Is there a way to make this file accessible to people whether they
choose
> to
> > type in all CAPS or lowercase? I've searched through the archives with
no
> > results...
> >
>
> Dunno on this item.
> > As well, where do I stick .htaccess files?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > GABE
>
>
> Bill
>
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