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Asked: 2026-06-04T22:08:18+00:00

I have written a basic htaccess rewrite rule to point all images inside a

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I have written a basic htaccess rewrite rule to point all images inside a directory to a php script to load them from another location in the filesystem. This works fine if the directory exists but if I remove the directory it breaks. I’m assuming I need to add some sort of wildcard to the rule so everything inside the images directory uses this rule, regardless of whether the directory exists or not. 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} images
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .*jpg$|.*gif$|.*png$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /image_handler.php?image=$1

Help appreciated,
Greg

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  1. Editorial Team

    You want to use REQUEST_URI instead of REQUEST_FILENAME:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} images
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.*(jpg|gif|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ image_handler.php?image=$1

    REQUEST_FILENAME will be the actual system path of whatever it determines is the object of the request, and if the file and directory don’t exist then it’s not going to match anything.

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