Need assistance with my .htaccess / mod-rewrite

[Guest]

yes, you've to change the links pointing to the images etc., but you can also use mod_rewrite to rewrite the image-dir:

If you've example.com/images

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RewriteRule ^.+images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L]

to rewrite eg. example.com/index/images to example.com/images

Bob

Hello Robert,

This is wonderful. The above worked nicely. The only thing I would need to do is place all of my other resources, such as: css, swf, ico, and js files into another directory, perhaps "resources", and then use another line like the one above modified to point to that directory to pull in the files that are not in the images directory.

You should totally right a book! I tell ya, this forum has been such a great resource for mod-rewrites.

Thank you so much again for your help!
-Victor

[Caterham]

Hi Victor,

well you can use

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RewriteRule ^.+(images|scripts|files)/(.*)$ /$1/$2 [L]

to rewrite some more folders to the doc root folder. Or you use individual rules such as

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RewriteRule ^.+images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^.+scripts/(.*)$ /scripts/$1 [L]

Just one final note: If you are running apache >1.3.28 or >2.0.45 with more than 9 name-value pairs (variables), you might have to use

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RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=25

in your .htaccess to increase the maximum number of redirects from the default value 10 to 25 (these are so called internal redirects). This is an apache prevention for endless loops.

You should totally right a book!

Well, I wrote already some sort of mod_rewrite FAQ in a german forum, modrewrite.de

Robert

[Guest]

Hello Robert,

well you can use

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RewriteRule ^.+(images|scripts|files)/(.*)$ /$1/$2 [L]

to rewrite some more folders to the doc root folder. Or you use individual rules such as

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RewriteRule ^.+images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^.+scripts/(.*)$ /scripts/$1 [L]

Thanks for the tip. It's nice to know that I can have one line to account for many different resource locations.

Just one final note: If you are running apache > 2.0.45 with more than 9 name-value pairs (variables), you might have to use

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RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=25

in your .htaccess to increase the maximum number of redirects from the default value 10 to 25 (these are so called internal redirects). This is an apache prevention for endless loops.

I am using less than 9 name-value pairs, and do not think I'll come close to the limit. If I do, and I notice to site acting weird, I'll be sure to place this in my .htaccess. Again, thanks for the tip!

Well, I wrote already some sort of mod_rewrite FAQ in a german forum, modrewrite.de

Too bad I don't understand German. Perhaps when you have time, you can translate it into an English version as well?

Best,
-Victor