Question

I have a template page and want to replace my placeholder “variable” used in the path of all src=”” and href=”” on the page.

Paths look like this:

 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/VARIABLE/custom.css" />
 <img src="http://somewhere.com/VARIABLE/img/1.jpg" />

which I want to change to:

 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/set-value/custom.css" />
 <img src="http://somewhere.com/set-value/img/1.jpg" />

I first tried this with javascript/jquery client side, but I can’t get it to work properly.

So I’m wondering whether this is something I can do in .htaccess? I’m a total .htaccess newbie, so some pointers on where to start would also be appreciated.

Thanks for help!

Answer 1

You could use

RewriteRule  ^/var1/(.+)$                 /value1/$1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^/var2/(.+)$                 /value2/$1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^/var3/(.+)$                 /value3/$1 [L]
# ...

But I’m pretty sure there are better ways to accomplish your goal. Why do you need this, what are you trying to do?

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EDIT

You could use a special php page instead of the “variable”, e.g.:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/variable.php/css/custom.css" />
<img src="/variable.php/img/1.jpg" />

Then in variable.php use $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] to get the trailing path, i.e. /css/custom.css or /img/1.jpg respectively. Then point to the correct file you want for each client (maybe based on the cookie value?).