Case-sensitive web page file names

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Just a quick FYI on some web site details many may not have thought about. I've had some personal web pages out there for 20+ years. Originally on Charter's (Windows powered) servers and then GoDaddy (also Windows for a while). When they were switched to Linux servers a bunch of pages and images failed. Digging into the details it appears to be the way Windows vs. Linux handle file name capitalization. As we know, Windows is not case sensitive to file names and of course Linux is case-sensitive. Because of that a bunch of little things failed during the migration from Windows to Linux hosting (as to be expected). I thought I've always worked in lower case file names (with no spaces) so I'm not sure how some capitalized files happened on the web server. Regardless, after spending some time in the cPanel file manager renaming files all works again.
 
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