Linux and Application.cfc

I've been having lots of fun playing around with my shiny new Linux (Ubuntu) installation. However, for someone that's been used to the easy life under Window$ I have to admit that there is a little of a learning curve. One of the things that's been causing me the most grief (right after all that hacking in the terminal) is the fact that Linux is case-sensitive. As a ColdFusion developer, that means I have to be extra careful about how I name and call my pages.

This means that if I have an index.cfm file, I can't link to it with Index.cfm. Or INDEX.cfm. Or even index.CFM. You get the picture. The thing is, though, that ColdFusion gives special meaning to certain file names. Earlier today, I was starting a new mini-project, the first since my Linux install. I create my application.cfc file, put some methods in there, initialize a couple of variables. I then try outputting them to the browser in some random .cfm page, just for kicks. To my surprise, nothing that I had done in my application.cfc seemed to have been run. This had me stumped for a good 10 seconds (Yeah, I'm that good. Ok, Ok, I'd remembered reading about it a while back.). For some reason, and this has been hanging around for a while now, when the Linux version of ColdFusion was first compiled the file's name was specified as Application.cfc. Other files to be careful about are OnRequestEnd.cfm and Application.cfm

From what I was able to test, cfincludes also suffer from this case-sensitivity, although cfmodule, cfimport and calling custom tags via cf_ seem impervious.