Mod Rewrite - Image Paths

[Adrian Schneider]

Basically I have /vb35rc1/blogs/username/ rewritten as /vb35rc1/blog.php?do=viewblog&un=username, but all my image paths point to /vb35rc1/blogs/username/images/. I looked up on google and found something like:

rewriteRule /vb35rc1/blogs/(.*)/images/ /vb35rc1/images/ [L]

Not much luck there though, under view source I see images/(image) now, but the images still won't show. Any pointers?

Thanks

[akanevsky]

Try the following:

rewriteBase /
rewriteRule ^vb35rc1/blogs/([A-z0-9\-\_]*)/images/([A-z0-9\-\_]*)$ vb35rc1/images/$2

[Dean C]

You should start from scratch with these rules. Particularly because you are allowing the (.*) everything atom. mod_rewrite is a great first line of defence against hacking attempts so it's always best to specify what you want to put in the parentheses.

What exactly will go in the place of the (.*)'s ?

[Adrian Schneider]

Thanks DV

Their username will go there of course, Dean.

[Dean C]

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^vb35rc1/blogs/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/images/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/?$ vb35rc1/images/$2 [L]

That's a cleaned up version of Dark's code. There's no need to escape characters within the character classes in mod_rewrite. Also needed to add an optional trailing slash otherwise when users add a / on the end of your URL it'll break. I'm having trouble trying to see exactly what you are doing here though...

[Adrian Schneider]

Cleaning URLs for blogging, but the image paths got all messed up after. All my rewrites work fine on my other site, just not the vB one because of how the images are setup.

[Dean C]

So do users have their own collection of images or something?

[Adrian Schneider]

No - so instead of having to type blog.php?do=view&u=1 they have to type /blogs/aj/ , just the result of doing so messed up the image paths (of course not just for me, for all users)

[Dean C]

In that case the above rule will not work. Use this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^blogs/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/?$ blog.php?do=view&u=$1 [L]

That will assume that you pass the username to $_REQUEST[u]

RewriteBase will fix your problems with the image paths. put it in your vb3rc1 directory in a .htaccess file

[Adrian Schneider]

Hmm..

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^blogs/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/?$ blog.php?do=view&un=$1 [L]