Posted by mbstevens on 10/26/06 23:10

ato_zee@hotmail.com wrote:
> Site looks fine local browser, ftp it to ISP's server,
> click on URL, site broken, using the same local browser.
> Both FFox and IE.
> HTML and style sheet validate at W3C.
> I'll dig deeper tomorrow, but any quick theories why
> site behaves differently on a server?
> Next step I suppose is to ftp download from
> the server and see if it's still broken or looks
> fine again on the local browser.
> Then try installing a local Apache server to get
> a handle on the problem and what's going on.
> Anybody else met this?
> I'm running XP pro SP2 so I suppose anything
> can happen considering MS's cavalier attitude to
> standards.

Windows filenames are case insensitive. Your
server is likely to be on *nix, and case
sensitive. URLs in links, etc. must have
exactly the same capitalization as the
target's actual filename.
--
mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com/

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