Keimo (and to Mark, asking before you in this thread, from 6 years before): there's no easy way around the case-sensitivity of file names and paths in Linux, if by which you mean some switch in CF that makes it case-insensitive.
Someone may propose that a urlrewrite feature of your web server could make all requests coming in be entirely lower case, but that's not your real problem. As you say, you are talking about component names.
But here's some good news. CF has long provided a BIT of a workaround here, in that with cfinvoke, cfobject, and createobject, when invoking a CFC on linux, it will first lowercase the filename, trying to find one that matches that. If it does not find it, then it will search for the exact case. (That order seems backward, but it's what is documented for all 3 of those. Also, the docs don't clarify if this applies to the folder as WELL as the path. I'd love to hear if anyone confirms that. I'm pressed for time to try that right now.)
And so if you would at least ensure that ALL YOUR CFC filenames (and I suspect folders) were lowercase, then you would at least not have to change your CODE. That's a bit easier to work with.
There's even a helpful tip of how to at least do the lowercasing of files in a folder in an automated fashion here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/10522960/90802
That said, if you DO do that, then if any such files ARE requested via the web, you WOULD want to implement a url rewrite to lowercase them, because otherwise Apache WOULD fail to find them if the newly renamed case didn't match what was coming in.
You may, like the person there, want to push back on that idea at first. But perhaps you will, like he did, ultimately realize it's the seeming best workaround.
Let us know how it goes.
/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart.org)
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