Question

I need to write a rule to redirect any image file to a specific folder. Namely ‘images’

RewriteCond $1 ^(.*\.jpg|.*\.gif|.*\.bmp) 

That will match all the imag, the the rerwrite part is confusing me. I want that

Http://domain.com/path/controller/view/image.jpg http://domain.com/any/path/that/i/want/image.jpg 

to load the file

http://domain.com/iamges/image.jpg 

Is this possible?

Answer 1

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /  # prevent endless loops RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !images/  # capture only the filename  RewriteRule ^.*/(.*\.jpg|.*\.gif|.*\.bmp) images/$1 [L,R] 

The R option in the [L,R] is forcing a visible rewrite – if you want it to appear that the image is coming from the request url then just use [L]

Take a look at the mod_rewrite documentation for more details