Mod_rewrite help

[Peter]

Hi

I have afdapted a bit of htaccess code very slightly and have come up with the following:-

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \playing.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) mp3/playing.php [NC,L]

What I am doing is redirecting images to a php script. Can anybody adapt this so that it will work regardless of what directory it is so that it does not have to hard coded.

Cheers in advance

 

[Dan]

Well, I'm not sure what you mean but I do see one thing wrong..

jpe?g should be jpeg?

 

[yeppers]

Well, I'm not sure what you mean but I do see one thing wrong..

jpe?g should be jpeg?

I think that the question mark is ok there, it allows for jpg and jpeg (the ? allows for the e to disappear).

Im not sure how to do what you wanted though Peter , sorry.

 

[weblord]

to redirect images to another .php file is to force make all .jpg/.gif/.png images be read by browser as .php files.
.htaccess

<Files *.png, *.gif, *.jpg>
     ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

now your .gif/.jpg/.png should contain something like this:

<?php $URL="http://www.yourotherdomains.com/";
header ("Location: $URL");
exit();
?>

now all images files where the .htaccess above can be found will act as if they're .php

hth

 

[yeppers]

One thing though, if you redirect ALL image files to a php file, when the php file goes to request that image, wont it simply redirect back to the php file again, looping and looping?

 

[weblord]

the .htaccess is only good on the folder/directory where it's saved. when your .php wants to request another image file request it from another path or folder, the said .htaccess must not be stored on /images/ for obvious reasons.

 

[Peter]

weblord that is not correct. a htaccess file affects the folder it is in AND all of it's subfolders. So if it is in / then it will also affect /images/. (unless there is a htaccess file that stops the behaviour)

 

[Dan]

BillyConnite, yeah your right..

But I'm still not sure what the htaccess is supposed to be doing here.

 

[Peter]

the intention of the htaccess is to have it so that someone could go to http://www.domain.com/mp3/playing.jpg (or png, gif etc) and http://www.domain.com/mp3/playing.php is actually executed.

At the moment it works but I would like to be able to do it so that the folder name does not have to be hard coded into the htaccess file.

 

[Dan]

RewriteRule (.*)?\.(jpe?g|gif|png) $1.php

 

[Peter]

thanks dan thats exactly what I needed.