> Whoa -
>
> Just discovered that when you create an apache alias in Server Admin
> | Web | Sites | Settings | Aliases, then hit Save, it gets converted
> to lowercase regardless what case letters you type or paste in. So /
> Library/WebServer/Documents... becomes /library/webserver/
> documents... The result is that some aliases return 403 Forbidden
> errors to the browser. Editing the site's config file manually and
> restarting apache leaves the case intact, and the alias works fine.
>
> Here's the punchline: Not only does Server Admin change the case of
> the alias you're currently creating, but it lowercases ALL aliases in
> ALL config files in /etc/httpd/sites/* . So the fact that I created
> an alias on one site last night resulted in the webmaster of another
> site running off my server being woken up at 5am to hear that his
> site was broken.
>
> I don't recall this happening before - is this a new bug in 10.4.6 or
> 10.4.7 (or did I just never hit a problem with this before)? For now
> I'm going to steer clear of Server Admin for this task and just
> create them manually when needed.
>
> What I don't understand is why this should break sites - isn't HFS+
> case-respecting but case-insensitive? Is case sensitivity a separate
> apache option somewhere?
It's always been like this in 10.4 AFAIK. You can turn off the HFS module
if you want Apache to ignore case on Mac OS X Server.
Josh
www.afp548.com
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