[CentOS] case insensitive file system

Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com
Wed Apr 30 14:37:33 UTC 2008


Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com> wrote:
> > Does the entire filesystem need to be case insensitive, or is this a
> > web based product, where you can do some apache rewrite-fu to make
> > this work instead?
> 
> It is a web based product, but I'm not sure rewriterules would help.  
> Lets say it's something like this
> 
> http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=foo
> 
> And inside index.php it does something like
> 
> <? include($_GET['page'].".php") ?>
> 
> This is a gross simplification, but it's my understanding that if the 
> file was named 'foo.php' and someone typed in
> 
> http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=Foo
> 
> It would still work on windows, but not on linux because of case 
> sensitivity.

Is this a php based app then?

You could look at storing your files in mysql which could be made
to be case insensitive and then you could full text index them
quicker and easier as well as preserve this functionality across
platforms.

-Ross

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