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2006-10-29... Switching Oxygen Supplies ...It’s dark here in the void, that’s for sure. It’s even a struggle to make out the indicators in my suit’s heads-up display. I’m pretty sure I’m at the new site but there’s a visibility problem and I haven’t found the surface yet. It would be pretty funny if this mission were snuffed out because of a little thing like the difference between case-sensitivity and case-insensitivity in different parts of the habitat environmental systems. … This is the second confirmation post on the migration of Blogger to using the new official location for this blog. What I am noticing is how unsuspecting I was about Apache being case sensitive and all of my site-development tools (IIS, FrontPage, and VSS) being case-insensitive in a weirdly case-honoring way. I have images and pages whose URLs have capital letters in them, and some that are all lower-case. I have links to images and pages, some of which match the spelling of the target and some of which do not. So some are broken, some aren’t. In the case where all links are broken the same way, there are remedies. For the others, it is a nightmare. This morning, I’m giving my tale of woe to Vicki, who is showering while I’m shaving. She wonders if there was any warning about this. I don’t think so. I missed it if there was. I also figured that migration would be a snap because I have full backups of the previous (case-insensitive) site content and it is easy for me to migrate onto a new server via FTP. And it was. It took me a while to figure out what the breakage was all about, and I thought it would be easy to fix. Then I started nosing around and realizing that it is very difficult to get my case-insensitive tools to force the same spelling of page locations everywhere. So Vicki asks if maybe there is some setting that can control this. It is time to find out. I’m on a shared host, so it will have to work with the Apache .htaccess file. That is about all I can control. What a great question. Wish me luck in finding a favorable answer. I really don’t want to go back to an IIS-hosted web site. I have waited for years to be able to do add-on domains (not knowing that’s what they would be called), and I don’t want to give that up. The economy and capacity of the new site is also wonderful. Now it is just a little problem about getting all of the case-differing links and targets repaired somehow. [update 2006-10-29-18:09Z: Well, it looks like the life-support system is failing. I was able to post to the new location via Blogger last night, but not this morning (in gmt-0800). Let's see if it is an easy fix. No, if I use Blogger to repost the message, rather than BlogJet (which doesn’t learn of Blogger errors), I get this handy report:
but I can get get to that site with no problem using WS_FTP, that domain name, and the account name and password that I set up specifically for Blogger FTP of my blog pages to the site of my choice. In a word, WTF?] [update 2006–10–30–01:12Z: I used a page on Spanner Wingnut to retry posting from time to time, and posts from Blogger seem to be working now. Here goes for this site and blog.]
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