Developing for unix (no extensions) servers

[Roger]

I have been using my "free" earthlink webspace, which is unix and has no
extensions. I publish using FrontPage with the ftp connection. A site that
works on my local machine does not work on the server and the problem is the
caSe sensitivity. The publishing process ends up making case changes in
file names that break the web. For example buttonA might come out Buttona.

I have gone in with either FP or WS_FTP and renamed files but this is at
best tedious. Anyone have suggestions as to how to avoid this problem?

Roger

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Make sure that you use all lowercase file and folder names.

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Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Agents Real Estate Listing Network
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[Ronx]

Make all filenames lower case, and set WS-FTP to always upload with lower
case filenames.
Download Case Changer addin from http://www.jimcosoftware.com to change all
filenames (and links to them in pages) to lowercase.
The links for some of the buttons may have to be changed by hand since they
are in JavaScript.
When you create new buttons, change their names on the save dialogue from
ButtonB.gif to a meaningful name (in lowercase) such as
b-pagename-hover.gif

 

[DSG]

I have just completed cleaning up 160 pages with this problem.
It's a quicker job to (from main menu) VIEW > Folders > and open the images
folder for renaming the images. But as you do that, (FrontPage 2000) you
also have to right-click the image name and choose 'Properties' and change
it there, also. For some reason, the lower-case correction doesn't carry
over to the properties page of the image.

And buttonA and Buttona should really be buttona or button_a.

And thanks, Tom, for helping me to straighten out my mess:
Thread 8/17/2006 at 10:42 pm
"Index Page: directoryname? or A Label Like This In Sentence Case?"


: Make sure that you use all lowercase file and folder names.
:
: --
: ==============================================
: Thomas A. Rowe
: Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
: ==============================================
: Agents Real Estate Listing Network
: http://www.NReal.com
: ==============================================
:
:
: >I have been using my "free" earthlink webspace, which is unix and has no
extensions. I publish
: >using FrontPage with the ftp connection. A site that works on my local
machine does not work on
: >the server and the problem is the caSe sensitivity. The publishing
process ends up making case
: >changes in file names that break the web. For example buttonA might come
out Buttona.
: >
: > I have gone in with either FP or WS_FTP and renamed files but this is at
best tedious. Anyone
: > have suggestions as to how to avoid this problem?
: >
: > Roger
: >
:
:

 

[Ronx]

To rename a file to lowercase is a 2 step process - rename to some other
name, then rename again to the original, but lower case.
Use Case Changer from http://www.jimcosoftware.com to do this for you.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

When change a folder or file name under Windows, you must first name it to something different, then
name it to what you want. The reason is that Windows considers "ButtonA.jpg" to be the same a
"buttona.jpg", the solution is to rename "ButtonA.jpg" to "ButtonA1.jpg" then to "buttona.jpg".

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==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
==============================================
Agents Real Estate Listing Network
http://www.NReal.com
==============================================

 

[Roger]

Thanks to EVERYONE (probably should be everyone). One thing that still
confuses me is the FP seems to use and alias. I used Windows Explorer to
reman a directory to florida but it still showed up as Florida in FP until I
did the double name change trick.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

When you make any changes outside of FP, then FP is not aware of your changes. And you have to do
the double name solution when renaming folders/files with the same name but a different CaSe.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
==============================================
Agents Real Estate Listing Network
http://www.NReal.com
==============================================

 

[Roger]

Thanks, especially for the WS_FTP suggestion.

Is it better to use an ftp client like WS or to use the publishing tools in
FP?

Unfortunately all of this still leaves the problem of imbedded file names in
components like slideshow etc. The entire problem seems insidious. I had a
session where there were files in a folder, call it "folder" . FP created
two folders, "Folder" and "folder" and split the files between them. I am
not big on conspiracies but it does seem to me that MS would like to seen
unix servers look bad.

If I start a site from scratch and NEVER use anything but lower case can I
expect that I will never have links broken by case???

Roger

 

[Ronx]

If you are editing on a Unix server then Folder and folder are two
different files (Unix sees folders as files). FrontPage can tell the
difference, and allows the two folders to be created because that is what
you may want to happen.