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Q216746: FP: Uppercase Links to Files Are Broken Publishing to UNIX

Article: Q216746
Product(s): Word Front Page
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 16-APR-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft FrontPage 2002 
- FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions from Microsoft 
- Microsoft FrontPage 2000 
- FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions from Microsoft 
- Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you publish Web content that contains uppercase links from a Windows- based
personal computer to a Web server that resides on UNIX, the links may break.

CAUSE
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Windows-based computers perform case-insensitive compares when resolving URLs,
while UNIX-based servers perform case-sensitive compares. URLs by definition are
case-sensitive, so the UNIX systems apply them literally, while Windows-based
Web servers make a reasonable simplification.

RESOLUTION
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To resolve this problem, make your links relative to the case of the directories
where the links point.

For instance, if you make a relative link to an image in your Web called
Picture.gif, and you enter the URL: IMAGES/picture.gif, this link will work
properly for Web servers on Windows. If you publish this Web to a UNIX Web
Server, the link will appear broken when browsing to it. This is because the URL
points to "IMAGES" and the actual folder is named (lower case) "images."

In this situation, you would need to modify the URL: images/picture.gif so that
"images" matches the case of the directory on the UNIX Web server. The other
option is to change the case of the images folder on the UNIX Web server to
"IMAGES."

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at
the beginning of this article.


Additional query words: front page FPSE FP 2002 2000 FP98

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbFrontPageSearch kbFrontPage2002 kbFrontPageServXSearch _IKkbZNotKeyword4 kbZNotKeyword2 kbFrontPage2000Search kbFrontPage2002Search kbFrontPage98Search kbZNotKeyword3 kbFrontPage2000ServX kbFrontPage2002ServX kbZNotKeyword5
Version           : :
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbnofix

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