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Asked: 2026-05-29T19:37:16+00:00

My software supports multiple domain names all pointed at the same directory on the

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My software supports multiple domain names all pointed at the same directory on the server (a different database for each of course). So these domains…

www.example1.com
www.example2.com
www.example3.com

…all point to…

/public_html/

In the image directory…

/public_html/images/

I have directories that exactly match the host names for each website:

/public_html/images/www.example1.com/
/public_html/images/www.example2.com/
/public_html/images/www.example3.com/

I’m trying to get Apache to rewrite requests so that if you view the image directly and look at the address bar you only see the host name once.

So a request for…

http://www.example1.com/images/book.png

…is fetched by Apache at…

/public_html/images/www.example1.com/book.png

One of the things I’ve tried and have had success with in different circumstances is the following though it doesn’t work in this situation:

RewriteRule ^[^/]*/images(.+) images/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1
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  1. Editorial Team

    Try adding the following to the .htaccess file in the root directory of your site (public_html)

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase / 

#prevent looping from internal redirects
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !200
#only rewrite gif, jpg or png
RewriteRule ^(images)(/.+\.(gif|jpg|png))$ $1/%{HTTP_HOST}$2 [L,NC]

    Your rule 

    RewriteRule ^[^/]*/images(.+) images/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1

    did not work because you have a leading / before images. In .htaccess the leading / is removed, so the rule would never match.

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