Re: Mac OS X - Apache & Case Insensitive Filesystems

From: Scott Gifford (sgiffordat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 13:12:17 PDT

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    Stefan Arentz <stefan.arentzat_private> writes:
    
    [...]
    
    >   The preferred filesystem for Mac OS X is Apple's HFS+ and most
    >   setups use it. HFS+ is a case insensitive filesystem.
    > 
    >   Apache's directory protection (and other methods that depend on
    >   filesystem object names) cannot handle this and breaks. For example,
    >   both Directory and Location configuration options break.
    
    Apache works on Windows, which also uses a case-insensitive
    filesystem.  Anybody know how that works?  Could it be easily adapted
    to MacOS X?
    
    ----ScottG.
    



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