Viewing Case Sensitive File Names

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Case Sensitive File Names



User: John S. 11 years ago
In EverWeb the "File name" can be typed as "Any_Web_Page", but what gets published is "any_web_page". I'm trying to replace a iWeb websites and their file names contain upper & lower case letters. I need to match those URL names which I can't do via EverWeb.

Maybe a simple preference in the EverWeb preference panel - this what I could turn this on? That way it wouldn't break people's sites who have been using EverWeb.
User: Roddy 11 years ago
All file names used in a URL should be lower case with no spaces or special characters. Hyphens should be used in place of underscores to separate words.

File names are not case sensitive locally but are when published to the server. EverWeb tries to overcome the inevitable makes made by beginners who don't know all this stuff by converting the page file names to lower case and dealing with the spaces.

If you created page names incorrectly for a previous version of your website, you should take this opportunity to correct them for your new version. This applies to all file names such as those for images, movies, PDFs and audio.

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Roddy

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User: Paul-RAGESW 11 years ago
Also if you are using the EverWeb + Hosting service you can use the 301 redirect feature to redirect your old iWeb pages. to your new EverWeb pages.

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Paul
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User: John S. 11 years ago
This is a no-win scenario and damage will be done. Through redirects & 301's, navigation can be maintained. Traffic won't be lost.

The issue is blowing-up the social proof - like the Facebook URLs that point to www.domain.com/Group/Page_1.html. I can maintain the like count because the HREF will refer to the original URL. But other things will implode - like google analytics and the adsense page ranks for their bid auctions. Pretty sure I'll take a revenue hit for awhile.

If EverWeb had an option to toggle off the lowercase conversion it does during the publish process, then the old pages from iWeb can be migrated without breaking FB counts, Tweet counts, etc.
User: Jumbo T. 11 years ago
Read this :

http://www.southcoastweb.co.uk/make-url-case-insensitive-using-php/
User: Jumbo T. 11 years ago
Here's another workaround.

Publish the EW website in the same location where the iWeb pages are.
You then have uppercase iWeb pages and lowercase EW pages next to each other.

Assuming you have the default iWeb menu, iWeb creates an feed.xml file.

Open that file in a text editor.

Change each Pagename.html at the href instance to lowercase > pagename.html

When a visitor arrives at the iWeb page and next click a link, he will open the EW page.

If you have links in the text of a page to 'one of my pages', change them to links to an 'external' EW page.


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