RE: [cobalt-users] Upper Case

["Si Watts" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

:> One of my customers has provided me with a 60MB website that I have
:> already uploaded. Problem appears to be upper case. When I changed
:> index.html to lowercase, this page appeared but it can't link to the
:> other pages in uppercase. Is there a simple way out of this?
:>

What you describe certainly smells of a windows based problem, although
there may be more to it than at first meets the eye, or than what has
already been mentioned by previous posters.

On windows, A=a whereas it doesn't on UNIX
Check the FTP settings (as previously mentioned) to ensure that your FTP
prog is NOT changing the filenames as it uploads.
Check the source HTML for the index page and see whether the linked pages
are upper/lower case, then compare this to the actual format stored on the
media you were supplied with. If the html lists only lowercase filenames
(not mixed case eg MyPage.html) you could probably just re-upload and force
lowercase filenames within ftp. If they are mixed mode, you have a bigger
problem.
Are there spaces in the filenames? If so, these need to be rectified, both
in the html AND in the filenames themselves.

It would be my suggestion that you DO NOT rashly launch in and convert all
the filenames without properly investigating the route of the problem first.
If the filenames are correct, every single bit of html referring to those
pages will be incorrect.

Some may disagree, but this problem is one where FrontPage will shine
through and help you sort this problem with the minimum of fuss. I've had a
similar problem where a site was supplied to me for upload onto my RaQ, but
the site had previously been hosted on an NT server (and had been working).
I uploaded as it was onto my RaQ and none of the images would correctly
display. I put that 5Mb site through FrontPage and used the Reports and Mass
Edit tools and had all errors fixed within 1/2 an hour.

If you are stuck and need a little help, drop me a line off-list and I'll
see what can be done, OR email me the URL off list and I'll have a quick dig
around. simonSPAMBIN@xxxxxxxxxxx (remove the SPAMBIN)

As for why it has happened, there are a number of possibilities, including
any of the following;
Change of OS on the PC where the site was created (doesn't seem to happen
when moving from W9X to W2K or XP, but does happen if you go back to 9X from
an NT based OS (this changes filenames in excess of 8 chars to UPPERCASE,
but appears to be random as to which it does it to!)
CD Mastering software has made the changes based upon choices within the
file system parameters
Innacurate html coding on the part of the site creator including spaces etc
and/or mixed uppper/lower case references.



Kind Regards

Si Watts
SiWIS http://www.siwis.co.uk