Serve some PHP as a PNG file

Question

I'm currently trying to get a small script working on my server, the point would be to serve a random PNG at a certain adress, for example https://domain.me/image/.

In /image/, I have this index.php, that does the job pretty well and outputs what I want:

<?php
$max = 30;
$image = rand(1, $max);
$name = '/var/www/image/src/'.$image.'.png';
$fp = fopen($name, 'rb');
header("Content-Type: image/png");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($name));
fpassthru($fp);
exit;
?>

(my PNGs are as you guessed stored in /image/src/)

I'm now trying to run that script when someone calls https://domain.me/image/script.png (some websites require a PNG extension at the end of the URL), and can't really figure out how to proceed.

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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If you are running a LAMP server, you might be able to get it working using a url rewrite: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html.

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edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Nov 13 '15 at 16:36

cjaube

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 13 '15 at 17:50

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If your using apache, you can use htaccess files to redirect your request:

RewriteEngine On    
RewriteRule script.png index.php

That should redirect from index.png to index.php

answered Nov 13 '15 at 17:50

robinp7720

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Works like a charm. I was trying `RewriteRule index.php script.png` for some reason. Thanks ! – Komic Nov 13 '15 at 19:21

Serve some PHP as a PNG file

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