Reminder: Naming Server Files (Lance's Reminder)

[Malinko]

After visiting a number of worlds, plus a lot of people complaining about default or other graphics being over written, this thread is just a reminder about naming world's graphics. Please make sure to not name graphics similiar to other worlds. Such as, if there is a treetop image, do not name it "treetop.png"; name it "world_treetop.png". (Rick will be mad at me since I used the name World, which is his server.

Lance created a thread like this a few months ago. It can be found here.

I'll quote what he said, just because some people might not want to open another window.

Originally Posted by Lance

Several times have there been problems wherein servers have uploaded files with the same names as files on other servers. When players visit these other servers, these more-recently-uploaded files will overwrite the normal files from the other servers in your webgifs directory. This is a problem, especially when files from official servers such as Graal Kingdoms are being overwritten.

Source: Graal Communication Center (reserved for gold and vip subscribers) > PlayerWorlds > PlayerWorlds Main Forum > Reminder: Naming your server's files

Please remember this.

Thanks!

[napo_p2p]

*cough* N-Pulse *cough*

[Malinko]

Originally Posted by napo_p2p

*cough* N-Pulse *cough*

I talked to someone about that there.

The response was: "Well if someone else logs on another server with default door graphic as door.png and logs on to that server with the graphic upload, then it will over write the file we have then when returning back here, it'll over write it again."

I wanted to slap them.

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by Malinko

I talked to someone about that there.

The response was: "Well if someone else logs on another server with default door graphic as door.png and logs on to that server with the graphic upload, then it will over write the file we have then when returning back here, it'll over write it again."

I wanted to slap them.

So is the "I am using that file over this one here" based on timestamps or is the serverside version used no matter what?