.htaccess Help

[edenwax]

Using htaccess, how could I made a file url site.com/8885.png instead of site.com/images/8885.png ?

I looked it up online but it looks super complex and I can't figure it out.

[Cam]

You could put the image in the public_html couldn't you?

[edenwax]

But thats messssssy. I like them in a nice folder.

[Cam]

Sept 10, 2011 4:45:30 GMT edenwax said:

But thats messssssy. I like them in a nice folder.

You could make it redirect or do you want the address bar to say:

edenisthecoolest.com/pic.png

but it's actually loading:

edenisthecoolest.com/image/pic.png

[edenwax]

Ehhh its more like website.com/randomnumberbetween1-6/pic.png

Yeah Ive been playing with file uploading and made something sick. Random name, random directory between 1-6, sweet security. Now I need to work on htaccess stuff to make the url look nicer.

[russellr]

Do you know all the urls or do you want it to create the redirect automatically?

A static option would be along the lines of:
RewriteEngine  on

RewriteRule ^img1.png$ images/img1.png
RewriteRule ^img2.png$ images/img2.png
RewriteRule ^img3.png$ images/img3.png


but dynamic would be slightly different and shorter.

[edenwax]

Ehhh the redirect automatically would be ideal.

[edenwax]

*le bump*

[echnaret]

I have a few questions. First, do you want to redirect everything in said folder(s), or just images? Will the folder(s) contain anything besides images? Also, I am confused: will the images be stored in one folder, or multiple? If multiple, how do you plan on differentiating between site.com/f1/img.gif and site.com/f2/img.gif?

[edenwax]

No, just images. Yeah I was hoping to use multiple folders buuuut if thats not possible I'll just use a different method. (one folder )

[echnaret]

What is the purpose of having multiple folders?

If everything is in one folder, you might try something like
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.jpg$ images/$1.jpg
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.gif$ images/$1.gif
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.png$ images/$1.png
In theory (I didn't test it), that should take all images of type jpg, gif, or png (with a file name of at least one character) and rewrite the file name so it is located in the images/ folder.

[edenwax]

There isnt a purpose really, I just wanted to test to see if I could do it. lol

Thanks though! I'll give it a test now

[echnaret]

I suppose, if you really wanted to, you could create a folder for each member on a site. However, the reason why it's not possible is because there would be no way to differentiate between two different pictures in two different folders with the same filename. You might be able to do something like this:
RewriteRule ^01(.+)\.jpg$ images01/$1.jpg
RewriteRule ^02(.+)\.jpg$ images02/$1.jpg
RewriteRule ^03(.+)\.jpg$ images03/$1.jpg
which would (in theory), convert example.com/01image.jpg into example.com/images01/image.jpg.

Before you do that, though, you need to sit down and ask yourself, "is this really contributing something positive, or just making things overly complex for the sake of complexity?" In the above case, it would be far easier just to create folders with a short name ("01", "02", "03") and not bother with rewrites at all.

[edenwax]

Oh its definitely making it more complex Like I said, its just something I was testing. I dont really need it to do that, and therefor only need a minor .htaccess rewrite.

[edenwax]

Also


RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.+)\.jpg$ i/$1.jpg
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.gif$ i/$1.gif
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.png$ i/$1.png
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.psd$ i/$1.psd
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.txt$ i/$1.txt
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.css$ i/$1.css



Gives me Internal Server Errors! D:

Nevermind, forgot to give .htaccess file the permissions.