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Laurence Frost
Laurence Frost

Reputation: 2993

.htaccess handling leading forward slash

I have a project which I wish to place in a sub-directory of a web root directory.

So if I had: /public_html as the web root directory

I want the project to live in: /public_html/myproject

Now, the project will eventually live in the root folder, so I want to make as few code changes as possible, but during testing it must stay in the sub-directory.

The issue is with the following:

<img src="/images/image1.png" alt="" />

This works fine when the project is in the document root, because the leading forward-slash is doing it's job.

However, when the project is in the sub-directory, the / takes the relative path back to the web root folder.

How can I alter .htaccess to prevent this? I need the leading forward slash to reference the "/myproject" folder instead.

Any ideas on how it can be done?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 776

Answers (1)

David Bauer
David Bauer

Reputation: 399

If you have the apache module mod_rewrite enabled, you could add the following to your .htaccess file in the root folder.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase   /
RewriteRule   ^images(.*)  /myproject/images/$1

You can find more information on this here:

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

Upvotes: 3

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