Question

So after moving a live site onto a local computer for offline show casing, a lot of the links have broken because of missplaced ../ that dreamweaver puts in.

It works online because the user of that domain doesn’t have permission to leave it’s doc root, but not so locally.

Is there an .htaccess that I could put the root dir that would restrict or redirect back to itself when trying to navigate to it’s parent?

So the site is in xampp/mysite/ and an img src has a value of ../images/image.png

So it’s looking for the image at xampp/images/image.png instead of staying in it’s root dir of xampp/mysite/images/image.png

Answer 1

I am assuming that all of your images are in the /xampp/mysite/images directory.

If so, then you could try adding the following to your .htaccess file in the root directory of your site.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

#if request is not in xampp/mysite/images/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/xampp/mysite/images/ [NC]
#rewrite images to /xampp/mysite/images
RewriteRule /(.+\\.(png|jpg|gif))$ /xampp/mysite/images/$1 [NC,L]