How to change image path using htaccess?

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I'm fixing this joomla site. It uses joomla 1.7 language filter so it adds post fixes to the url. So when i view an artcle with images, image is not displaying. I tried htaccess rewrite rules. But it didn't work for me... this is what i get when i copy image url.

http://domain.com/en/images/myimage.png

But when I check the code its images/myimage.png . If i edit code to /images/myimage.png it works.

Tthis is what i try to do with htaccess too, to add a "/". Since it didn't work i guess i have to change whole url. I don't have much knowledge in rewriting. Can you guys help me please?

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '12 at 12:34

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Give this a go in your .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^.*/images/(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/images/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

This will rewrite your /en/images/... requests to /images/...

Note, this could have unexpected consequences for other URLs. I would suggest properly testing this on your own application.

answered Mar 14 '12 at 12:34

Moz Morris

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hello, then all my other images disappears :( – guitarlass Mar 14 '12 at 12:56
What are your other image paths? Give me an example of one or two that are not working. – Moz Morris Mar 14 '12 at 13:00
hey thanks save my time :) i edited it ` RewriteRule ^en/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^/en/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^de/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^/de/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^pl/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^/pl/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L,R=301] ` thats what i did, did it as i know maybe not so accurate ! but thaks a load!! – guitarlass Mar 14 '12 at 13:07

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '16 at 01:55

The .htaccess solution only works partially for me, so I fixed this from the template's index.php file. Inside the <head> tag, after the <jdoc:include type="head" /> code I added this code

<?php
//removed joomla autogenerated <base> tag
unset($doc->base); ?>
<base href="<?php echo JURI::root(); ?>">

Tested with Joomla 3.6.5

How to change image path using htaccess?

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