Publishing Problem

[Walter R.]

Using FP 2k and Win XP. Both my computer and my webhost have FP extensions.
They work fine. I tried to download my web from my webhost to my computer to
make sure I can use my website as a backup.

I published the live web to http:\\localhost\download. FP told me that no
such web existed on my computer and would I like to create one. I answered
yes.

When I clicked on "Publish", FP started to list files and then came up with
the triangular Warning:
"You specified identical destination files for some of the files you are
trying to copy. Make sure all destinations files have unique names and try
again." -- End of publish.

Since FP had just created the new web on my computer, which is obviously
empty, how can it then complain about "identical destination files"?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You are most likely publishing from a Unix/Linux server and have files in
the site that consider different, but under Windows are considered one and
the same, for example:

Index.htm, index.htm and INDEX.HTM are consider different files under
Unix/Linux but one and the same file under Windows, which would cause the
warning dialog.

You will need to open the live site and rename similar files.

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[Walter R.]

You are quite right; my webhost is a UNIX server with FP extensions.

However, both the computer and the website have identical homepage files:
default.htm

Anyway, since I am publishing to an empty, newly establish website on my
computer, FP has nothing to compare files with. Why is it complaining?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The site you are publishing from (server) has two or more files somewhere
with duplicate file names, as far as windows is concerned.
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[Walter R.]

I just tried publishing my site from my webhost to a file on my harddrive
(d:\download) instead of an http site (http://localhost/download. I am still
getting the same Warning and cannot publish.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Walter, it doesn't matter where you are publishing to, when it is to a
Windows OS machine, you can not have two files with the same name, in the
same folder whereas under Unix/Linux this possible by changing the CaSe of
the filename.

As I said, check you live site for matching filenames that only differ by
the fact the CaSe is different.

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[Walter R.]

Thank you, Thomas.