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Storage and non-case-sensitive OS's  (#3700)
Issue

 

While transferring a site from Windows to Linux (hooray!), I came across an uploaded file that couldn't be found by WebGUI. It turns out that the file was put into the wrong path due to coming from a non-case-sensitive OS. Before you guys close this out as a Windows bug, this isn't just a Windows issue as I'm pretty sure the Mac OS X is also non-case-sensitive.


Here's the issue--

  • Upload a new file that gets the following folder name - AWlHs_DQcVstfFAPZ5UxMw
  • On the non-case-sensitive OS, a folder with the name uploads/Aw already exists. The new asset with the capital 'W' gets put into this folder with the lowercase 'w'

All works fine until this is put onto a linux server or other case-sensitive OS.

 

William 

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Knowmad Technologies
http://www.knowmad.com

Solution Summary
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Graham
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4/7/2008 2:41 pm

There is a switch in the config file (caseInsensitiveOS) to use a different format for the uploads directories that will avoid this problem.

It wouldn't be especially difficult to write a script that would search through the uploads directories and move each into their appropriate parent directories.

If you wrote such a script, be sure to post it in the contribs area.

I'll change the Windows WRE to include the config file switch.

Closing as fixed.

Details
Ticket Status Closed  
Rating0.0 
Submitted Byknowmad 
Date Submitted2008-04-07 
Assigned To unassigned  
Date Assigned2008-12-01 
Assigned By 
Severity Critical (mostly not working)  
What's the bug in? WebGUI Stable  
WebGUI / WRE Version 7.4.27  
URLbugs/tracker/storage-and-non-case-sensitive-oss
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