On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:11:18 +1300 rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings > Sorry to have been so quiet recently, I know my off topic ramblings will > have been missed. :-) > > Just to finalise on an old thread here, I had so much hassle trying to > configure my server with Win2K + Apache 2, I decided to go for the > debian testing release, text only, plus Apache 2, following advice from > Steve and backed up by Trevor. > > This was done by using the net install method, which went very well. I > could never have imagined doing anything like this a few months ago. So > thanks to all who have helped me over the period. > > I fell foul of a few newbie pitfalls like copying html files over from > the Windows setup with filenames like "Fred Bloggs.htm" which could > neither be read as web pages via the new system or re-named, deleted or > anything else as Linux sees this as 2 files "Fred.htm and Bloggs.htm" so > I am still stuck with these on the system at the moment.
try quoting - eg mv "Fred Bloggs.htm" fredbloggs.html changes the name. or whats called "escaping" mv Fred\ Bloggs.htm fredbloggs.html the backslash character \ tells the shell that the next character is taken literally, not as the command line delimiter. > > Luckily, the fact that Linux differentiates between upper and lower case > filenames I was able to recopy the files over doing "mv" with a rename > as the final argument to "fredbloggs.html" and get the file in place, in > a useful naming format. This then loaded correctly as a web page from a > LAN machine. Any tips on how to get rid of the rogue files would be > appreciated. > > The installation worked great on some very primitive hardware and I have > attached the details for anyone who may be interested. It may be of > interest to another newbie considering a similar project. > > Woodsey > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
