I here recently found out that the path settings in application.ini are case sensitive.
 
This naturally should be the case on Unix systems as it distinguishes on the case in which a path is created so you can have both /myapp and /MyApp as separate paths.
 
But under Windows this distinction is not made. Both will point to the same path. And IIS will happily direct all the url:s to the same path regardless of the case in which the url:s are expressed in. The problem is that witango will recognize only the correctly written url in respect to case compared to the application.ini path setting as belonging to the app and all other versions of the url seem to end up in the default app scope.
 
I don't know how big the relevance in reality is, but my customer at least managed to cause this error without naturally understanding the reason as IIS is responding as normal and displaying the site but the settings are all wrong as the app scope is incorrect.
 
Does anybody know of some simple solution like configuring IIS to be case sensitive and thereby too generating an error or something as in the case with Unix if you have the wrong case ? Or somehow forcing the case of the url in the browser.
 
 
Jan
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