Network ftp to remote server problem

[MarlaJ]

Good afternoon

I have things set up on my computer as my local version of my site is residing on a Windows (XP I think) network drive and I automatically ftp the changed files to the remote server (Linux based). I set it up in the Edit Sites that when logging on to the Linux box the home directory is (for example) /home/. When I edit a file and save it it tries to upload to /home/ which is fine but if I am saving to a directory such as /home/subdirectory/ it automatically changes subdirectory to all uppercase and fails because Unix is case sensitive. /home/subdirectory/ is there but /home/SUBDIRECTORY/ is not. Does anyone know a way I can force it to keep the case? Is this not even possible? Any help would be very much appreciated. We had tried this on Windows NT systems and it did the same thing.

 

[lebisol]

nope, caps dont do a thing over the web....hence

HTTP://WWW.CNN.COM

is the same as

http://www.cnn.com

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[MarlaJ]

Caps DO do something - Windows based servers are not case sensitive but Unix/Linux servers are. /home/subdirectory and /home/SUBDIRECTORY are not the same thing on a Unix server. Domain names are case insensitive, filenames/folders/paths are case sensitive.

More info:

https://panel.dreamhost.com/kbase/index.cgi?area=1153

 

[lebisol]

it automatically changes subdirectory to all uppercase "

-are u makiing sure that your folders locally are set/named as u want them?
- try manually creating folder structure on the server
-thats odd....mx2004 keeps it the same but I am connecting to win based server....see if it a DW bug and patch up ur version

-...u might be forced to browse from /home/ directory
or make the main/start folder to be /username/THEIRSUB
in the worst case use an external FTP prog.

thats all I can think of right now.....perhaps look under server setup to see if u have any file restrictions....

"Domain names are case insensitive"
oh good, I am glad I had my caps ON when I bought a

http://www.MICROSOFT.com

,thanx LOL!

All the best!

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ok,ok...I did shoot the deputy but he told me he was the sheriff!
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