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You know, I've been using lowercase for everything since way back when. And with XHTML just around the corner, lower case and upper case will have completely different results when it comes to coding. I'm not sure what effect it has on file names, haven't studied that far yet.
I just find it much easier to use all lower case as it keep my fingers away from the Shift key!
P.S. I think all browsers are case sensitive when it comes to URL's. Go up to your address window and change something from lower to upper and hit refresh, the forums also return a 404.
(edited by: pageoneresults at 7:35 pm (utc) on Mar. 29, 2002)
Yeah save them as different names ie FILE as file_1
and then rename when they are on your server, I presume it is a remote host ?
Dazz
My ISP is using an Apache system.
I am using HotDog 6.5 as the web editor.
I'm guessing that he doesn't mean "some browsers," but rather that some search engines are displaying the link with the uppercase characters converted to lowercase. So anyone clicking on that link, regardless of what browser they're using, gets a 404.
I don't have any sites using mixed case filenames so I can't test that theory, because I don't know of any sites in those named search engines for which that condition might exist!
/word.html (comes in)
(does not find document, goes to 404 page)
(inside 404 page you read the requested URL. Then you determine if lowercase was the problem)
(If it was a problem then you redirect back to the real file)
redirect /Word.html
But the long term solution is always use lower case in the URL.
If I notice a programmer who is working for me that doesn't use all lower case I tell them to correct it and never do that again.
I find most web programmers have this problem when they migrate from IIS to Apache.
IIS does not care what case you have.
(edited by: Lisa at 8:39 pm (utc) on Mar. 29, 2002)
I would type in the web address that is getting screwed up, however, someone (wink, wink) would think I was spamming.
It will change any string in any selected group of files to any other string. Just have it search for the uppercase URLs in your files and replace them all with lowercase.
I used the tool a year or so ago, for this very purpose. :o There are probably several other programs that will do the same thing - that's just the one I found.
Jim
I changed all my file names to lowercase; I changed all the references to lowercase; I resubmitted my pages to several engines.
I discovered that while windows does not allow files with only an case difference in the name, Apache does.
I did not specifically remove the Uppercase files from the Server. I converted all the uppercase files in my computer to lowercase, and then I uploaded the lowercase versions.
I noticed that the uppercase files are still there getting some hits.
The main culprit of the whole problem seems to have been the fast spider that Lycos and Alltheweb use.
Somehow I suspect that the internal links on your site were inconsistent with regards to case. This is no problem when you test it on a Windows box at home, but becomes one once you upload it to a *nix server. Whatever the real reason, converting all names to something consistent is definitively a good idea.
