Rewrite one directory to another .htaccess

Question

I want to automatically redirect http requests to news/images to ../images.

Is that possible with .htaccess?

Thing is: request to www.site.tld/news/images ... should go to www.site.tld/images ...

I have tried:

RewriteEngine On
...
...
RewriteRule (.*)news/images(.*) ../images [R=301,L]

not working.

I have ensured that apache have mod_rewrite.c enabled.

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '16 at 17:48

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You can use:

RewriteRule ^www\.site\.tld/news/images$ /www.site.tld/images?&%{QUERY_STRING}

or you can also use:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.site.tld/news/images$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.site.tld/images/$1 [R=301,L]

But as @arkascha said, please do some research first, there are MANY answers to this sort of problem! :) Either way, I hope this helps.

answered Jun 09 '16 at 17:48

Joe

`HTTP_HOST` is the hostname only, without path info. And the `RewriteRule` pattern is only path info, without hostname. See [Apache Module mod_rewrite](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html) for details. – Olaf Dietsche Jun 10 '16 at 07:26
Thanks @OlafDietsche, I will take a look! :) – Joe Jun 10 '16 at 08:04

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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To redirect all requests for /news/images/ to /images/, capture the part after images and use it in the RewriteRule

RewriteRule ^news/images(.*)$ /images$1 [R,L]

When it works as it should, you may replace R with R=301. Never test with R=301.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Community

answered Jun 10 '16 at 07:21

Olaf Dietsche

2 Answers2