Apache redirects?! How

rincewind · 02-23-2005, 04:12 AM

Hello,

Is there possible to redirect an URL in apache to another url..

Lets say that i got the url trail

/demo/mysite/pic/58.jpg

and want to redirect all of the 58.jpg to
/demo/mysite/?showdbimage=58

/demo/mysite/pic/X.jpg
should go to
/demo/mysite/?showdbimage=X

And make that apply to all of my sites under /demo

?
Is this possible to do from a .htaccess file (I now NOTHING about thes .htacces files)..=)

Thankful for help,
Regards..
-- Rincewind

linuxxed · 02-23-2005, 06:40 AM

Have you looked at mod_rewrite apache module?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

rincewind · 02-23-2005, 07:35 AM

Yeah.. Thanks.. That helped a lot!!!=)

Another question though...

if I have in one of the dir a .htaccess file that looks like this:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/pics/(.*)\.jpg$ /?showdbimage=$1

it deos not work..
Any suggestions?

Im working in www.foo.bar/demo/mysite/
Im thinking it has to do that im not in the root directory www.foo.bar..?

Does anyone have any hints for me on how to fix this??
Thanks..
-- Rincewind

linuxxed · 02-23-2005, 02:43 PM

Check if you've got "AllowOverride None" in your httpd.conf. If yes then it will ignore .htaccess.

Increase log level - think it is RewriteLogLevel. Check logs to see how it is rewriting and why ..