Question

I have this somewhat working though it’s important to understand the setup.

With multi-domain support (multiple domains using the exact same copy of software) I need to rewrite ONLY the directories (which end cleanly like dir1/ or dir2/).

Visually here are where the files are referenced…

site1.com/gallery/image.jpg

site2.net/gallery/image.png

gallery/ (PHP code here)

.htaccess

So I want to have only directories rewritten to gallery/ while all image files (by extension) are rewritten to the site1/gallery/image.jpg paths.

What I have currently rewrites ONLY the base gallery/ path however it does NOT rewrite deeper gallery indexes (e.g. gallery/my_gallery/) however the image exception does work as well.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^[^/]*/gallery/$ gallery/$1 [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|png)$

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*/(gallery|admin|blog)
RewriteRule !\.(css|js)$ index.php

So how to I capture all directories regardless of depth while maintaining the image file exception please?

Answer 1

Turns out all I needed to do was add the file extensions to the rewrite condition. Also it’s VERY important to note that the rewrite condition must appear before the rewrite rule.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|gif|ico|jpg|js|mp3|png|swf|xml)$
RewriteRule ^[^/]*/(gallery|admin|blog)(.+) $1$2 [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*/(gallery|admin|blog)
RewriteRule !\.(css|js)$ index.php