Stop case sensitive file names on linux server?

[shamp00]

Hi

I am moving a number of website hostings from a current windows based host to a new linux reseller account with yourselves.

My problem is that because under windows the detection of files is not case-sensitive, there are a number of cases where an image filename might be in a different case to that stated in the HTML. E.g. the html might say

<img src="MyImage.jpg">

whereas the filename might be "myImage.JPG". When viewing this web page, the image doesn't appear.

Is there a way to "switch off" the case-sensitive nature of linux for certain accounts? Unfortunately there are images which appear on many pages often with different cases used, which means my otherwise having to go through every page to find the wrong cases!

Many thanks

Matt

[eUKhost.com]

This can be done through shell scripting only. I had a look at couple of articles on web which you can refer from :-

www. northernjourney.com/opensource/newbies/newb016.html
www. linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/56561-case-sensitive-file-browsing.html

Let us know if you want us to make a script this way to rename all upper case files and folders to lower case. You will need to open a ticket through our helpdesk from http://support.eukhost.com

[swexpert]

Hi Matt,
This post is 20 days old and I hope the new year has brought in a resolution of your problem already.

However, I know this is a tedious task. Unix is case sensitive by birth. But apache is even aware of this. So there is mod_speling which might help you. This will though put a pressure on the server because every file-not-found will first be intercepted by apache and a similar matching file would be located.

Practically I'd suggest renaming all files to lowercase in windows BEFORE bringing them to linux and then file and replace URLs in html files through some program.

Regds
IJ