Case-sensitive file names ?

[Becks]

I am webmaster of a site for our local swimming club. When using Chrome and IE (version 9), it has suddenly started giving errors, of the type 'file not found'. I think it is because some of the files are referenced but without the EXACT filename, including all case elements. Have I missed something like a change of rules? Has anyone else encountered this behaviour? Is my computer just misbehaving?

(as an example, from the left menu navigae to personal bests, then attempt to select 200m backstroke times - for me, it fails from left menu but succeeds from top hyperlink. The target page is spelt Backstoke200m.html)

Regards
Kevin

[HansV]

Many web servers run on Linux, a variant of Unix. The Unix file system is case sensitive, unlike Windows.

[Becks]

Thanks Hans, It had crossed my mind that someone else was to blame . A right royal pain that I have to review every page to ensure the filenames have a uniform appearance

Regards
Kevin

[agibsonsw]

HTML and HTML5 are not case-sensitive. CSS is not case-sensitive, but font-families, urls to images, can be if used with an XHTML/XML DOCTYPE.

JavaScript is case-sensitive, although some browser's interpreters are occasionally a bit lax/tolerant in this regard. But then, if JS expressions are used to modify HTML or CSS then these expressions will, most likely, not be sensitive to case.

So I find it best to always assume case-sensitivity - or, at least, case-consistency - espcially for file names and locations.

Regards, Andy.

[PaulB]

I don't know if this is a symptom of your original problem, but when I visit your site and follow the "Personal Bests" link I get the following:

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Don't think the "OOPS!" is the desired result. I'm using Firefox 7.0.1 on a Win 7 computer.

[Becks]

Thanks Paul,
That's certainly the end product of my issues. I'm partially relieved that it's not just me.
The upper left graphic had src="./Graphics/newlogo.gif" where it should have been src="./graphics/newlogo.gif" while the top right graphic had src="./graphics/top.gif" instead of src="./graphics/Top.gif"

I plan to write a macro to read every html file and check href and src for case-sensitive spelling

Regards
Kevin