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John Hubler
John Hubler

Reputation: 909

Relative path not working in .htaccess rewriterule - need to redirect without changing the URL

It looks like there are many questions on here regarding RewriteRules, relative paths, and redirecting without changing the URL - however, in all of my searching, none of them seem to answer my specific scenario.

Here is my current .htaccess file:

 RewriteEngine On

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
 RewriteCond {REQUEST_FILENAME} !^images
 RewriteRule ^files(.*)$ ../../fileManager/server/php/files$1 [L]

Basically what this is doing is, if the URL someone enters contains the word "files" after the root directory, it then redirects them to a path which is up two directories, which actually contains the file.

For example, if you go to "http://www.example.com/files/username/myImage.jpg", it will actually redirect you to "http://s281192971.onlinehome.us/cms/fileManager/server/php/files/username/myImage.jpg".

The problem with this is that it works great locally, but when I upload it to my server, it stops working.

One way I found around this was to just specify the absolute path to the file path like so:

 RewriteRule ^files(.*)$ http://s281192971.onlinehome.us/cms/fileManager/server/php/files$1 [L]

And that "works" - but the problem is, it changes the URL as well. I would prefer to keep the URL that the user typed in (http://www.example.com/files/username/myImage.jpg", rather than the absolute path.

Is this possible?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4910

Answers (1)

Bart
Bart

Reputation: 17361

I didn't try this but the docs state you can use the URL-path for substitution.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule

My guess would be making your rule like:

RewriteRule ^cms/mysite/files(.*)$ /fileManager/server/php/files$1 [L]

Upvotes: 1

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