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Friday, June 02, 2006
Looking for Some Technical Help --As some of you know, I’m involved in some pro bono work supporting the Global Virtual Classroom as its webmaster (don’t laugh – the foundation is owned by my sister, who thinks I have technical abilities – and don’t laugh at the circa 1999 site design inherited from the original AT&T program – I cringe every time I open it, but haven’t had time/energy to come up with a more modern design).
Our primary program is a website building contest in which schools around the world team up to build sites. During the building phase of the contest, they use temporary domains on our Linux-based server. Once done, I move them to directories within the GVC domain.
The problem I’ve run into is that the combination of whatever site development tools they’ve used plus the Linux server has allowed them to use file names that differ only by the text case (index.html and INDEX.HTML are accepted as different files), and more than a couple teams have done this with multiple pairs of files this year.
The way I move the files is via ftp download from the temp domains to archive them locally on my Mac and on CD-ROM, then re-upload them to their final resting place. The problem is that during the ftp process, my machine sees the two similarly named files as the same file and won’t let me save them in the same directory, forcing me to choose between keeping the first one downloaded or overwriting it with the second. I ran into this on one or two sites last year and was able to go in and tweak the names and links, but this year, the situation became more common – and too daunting to go in for manual fixes.
Would using Windows-based ftp allow these files to live together, or is there some other solution that might work?
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