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Problems with links and filenames

Problems with links and filenames

Your domain is hosted on a Linux server with an Apache web server – at the moment the must used system for web servers on the Internet.

On Linux there is a difference between capital and normal letters in file names. This means that the server will for instance see

holidaysnaps.html

and

HolidaySnaps.html

as two different files. Therefore you can avoid problems simply by only using non capital letters. If you use filenames with capital letters or mixed with non capital letters you must be certain that any links pointing to these files have the exact same filename with regard to capital and non capital letters, otherwise you would get an error when clicking on the link. Therefore you could experience that a page that works at home (on windows) works fine, but doesn’t work when uploaded to the server.


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