Question

What I’d like to do is have requests for a given extension fowarded to a script with a query string.

Example…

Requests for: http://mySite.com/myImage.png

Will be redirected to: http://mySite.com/imageServer.php?image=myImage.png

Thanks for you help on this one, I’m no good at mod_rewrite or even regular expressions, much appreciated.

Answer 1

This rule will rewrite (internal redirect) all requests for ANY .png file to /imageServer.php?image=<file-name.png>.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule (.+\.png)$ /imageServer.php?image=$1 [NC,L]

If you need this to be the actual redirect (301 Permanent redirect, when URL changes in browser), then add R=301 to the rewrite rule flags, e.g. [NC,L,R=301].