Case-sensitive filenames

zeocytex

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I've got many minutes of tedious trial and error just to "fix" the 404 server error that comes out whenever I clicked on a link on my website. The file existed and the spellings are correct but I still get the same result. Then I've come to "realize" the case-sensitivity of the filename. Yes the "casing" is not correct so I corrected it. Then... tada! It worked!

I hope you will explicitly state that you have a case-sensitive filename system and I hope this will save a heft of time and effort for other web admins.
 

essellar

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That's the norm. Most of the web servers in this world run on some flavour of *nix, and all *nixes (Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, etc.) have case-sensitive file systems. Windows is the odd one out, so unless you know you're using Windows hosting you will be dealing with case-sensitive filenames and filepaths. (Always keep that in mind if you are testing the sites you are developing on a Windows machine. You may be running Apache as your web server, but the file system is still Windows.)
 

descalzo

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To add, save yourself a lot of grief by not using spaces in file/directory names.
 

xav0989

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As a rule of thumb, always develop with no spaces/funny characters and never using capitals.
 
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