Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > > How do the files get there? I'd probably use a brute force approach > like lowercasing everything on the way in, or if case needs to be > preserved store the real files in one place but build a symlink tree > somewhere else of all-lowercase names pointing to the real file, then > lowercase the reference and access the name in the symlink directory. > > If you absolutely have to do it through the filesystem, I think you > could samba-mount a directory (perhaps even shared from the same > machine) with the case insensitive option. > The files get there through the web app itself. I will look into how hard it is to lowercase everything, but can't I just use something like vfat? Isn't vfat case insensitive? Russ