[20990] in bugtraq
Re: Mac OS X - Apache & Case Insensitive Filesystems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Gifford)
Tue Jun 12 16:50:32 2001
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To: Stefan Arentz <stefan.arentz@soze.com>
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From: Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com>
Date: 11 Jun 2001 16:12:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: Stefan Arentz's message of "Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:53:40 +0200"
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Stefan Arentz <stefan.arentz@soze.com> 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.
