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Portability Headache

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It happened, the first “porting” problem reported to me by a user. Last week I moved my sites from a Windows 2000 box to Linux 8 running Apache 2.4. The move was about us painless as can be (with the exception of having to rename a few copies of application.cfm to Application.cfm). Today a user in the Netherlands informed me that one of my lesser used pages was throwing a error. The problem? Case-sensitivity, on Linux (well, any platform but Windows) is case-sensitive. Ugh! The moral of the story? Keep case of file names and their references consistent, even if you are running on Windows for now. Just in case.

One response to “Portability Headache”

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    Yves

    I just set up a linux box a month ago for the first time…..
    I found my SESSION vars weren’t being set…
    After farting around for a couple of minutes, I realized that my application.cfm page needed "A"… lesson well learned.
    🙂

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